Original Language Studio
Zephaniah 2:13
“And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
נָטָהnâṭâh · naw-taw'
H5186 · Hebrew
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
- וְ — conjunction
- יֵ֤ט — verb Qal, jussive, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 216 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 12:8Genesis 24:14Genesis 26:25Genesis 33:19Genesis 35:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָטָה here.
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.