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Genesis 38:16

“And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?” (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
יֵּ֨ט — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage: Occurs 216 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 12:8 Genesis 24:14 Genesis 26:25 Genesis 33:19 Genesis 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.