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2 Samuel 22:10

“He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

נָטָהnâṭâh · naw-taw'
H5186 · Hebrew
Definition
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
[phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Grammar
  • וַ — conjunction
  • יֵּ֥ט — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage
Occurs 216 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 12:8Genesis 24:14Genesis 26:25Genesis 33:19Genesis 35:21

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.