natash · uproot

What it means

natash (נָתַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “uproot”.

Tear out of its place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pull up by the roots, like a people from their land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• uproot ×10
• uprooted ×5
• be uprooted ×3
• uprooting ×3

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×13
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 29:28

  And YHWH uprooted them from their ground in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.”

• 1 Kings 14:15

  YHWH will strike Israel, as the reed sways in the water; and he will uproot Israel from off this good land that he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River Euphrates, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking YHWH to anger.

• 2 Chronicles 7:20

  then I will uproot them from my land that I have given them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out from before my face, and I will make it a byword and a taunt among all the peoples.

• Psalms 9:6

  The enemy has come to an end: ruins forever; cities you have uprooted; has perished their memory, theirs.

• Jeremiah 1:10

  See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.”

• Jeremiah 12:14

  Thus says YHWH concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: “Look, I am uprooting them from their ground, and the house of Judah I will uproot from among them.

• Jeremiah 12:15

  And it will be, after I have uprooted them, I will turn back and have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each to his inheritance and each to his land.

• Jeremiah 12:17

  But if they do not listen, I will uproot that nation, uprooting and destroying it, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 18:7

  At one moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot and to tear down and to destroy;

• Jeremiah 18:14

  Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the field? Or are the foreign, cold, flowing waters uprooted?

• Jeremiah 24:6

  And I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; and I will build them and not tear them down; and I will plant them and not uproot them.

• Jeremiah 31:28

  And it will happen that as I have watched over them to uproot and to tear down, to demolish and to destroy and to bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 31:40

  And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”

• Jeremiah 42:10

  If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you and not demolish you, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I have relented concerning the evil that I have done to you.

• Jeremiah 45:4

  Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says YHWH: Look, what I have built, I am demolishing, and what I have planted, I am uprooting; and this I do to the whole land itself.

• Ezekiel 19:12

  But she was uprooted in fury, to the earth she was cast down; and the east wind dried up her fruit; her strong rods were broken off and withered; fire consumed it.

• Daniel 11:4

  And when he has stood up, his kingdom will be broken and divided toward the four winds of the heavens, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be uprooted and go to others besides these.

• Amos 9:15

  And I will plant them on their ground, and they will no longer be uprooted from their ground that I have given them, says YHWH your Elohim.

• Micah 5:14

  And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and destroy your cities.

And 2 more times.