נָטַשׁ natash

Hebrew word for “to leave” · Strong’s H5203 · used 40 times in 39 verses

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Meaning

1) to leave, permit, forsake, cast off or away, reject, suffer, join, spread out or abroad, be loosed, cease, abandon, quit, hang loose, cast down, make a raid, lie fallow, let fall, forgo, draw;

How it is translated

Glosses given for natash in context, with how often each is used:

• will abandon 7
• spread out 6
• abandoned 5
• left 3
• has abandoned 3
• abandon 3
• have abandoned 2
• did you allow? 1
• will leave fallow 1
• have you left 1
• may leave 1
• reject 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 17 (3), 2 Samuel 5 (2), Jeremiah 23 (2), Genesis 31 (1), Exodus 23 (1), Numbers 11 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), Judges 6 (1), Judges 15 (1), 1 Samuel 4 (1)

Forms

• ויטשׁ 6
• וינטשׁו 3
• ונטשׁתי 3
• נטשׁ 2
• יטשׁ 2
• נטשׁת 2
• תטשׁ 2
• נטשׁו 2
• ונטשׁתיך 2
• ויטשׁהו 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with natash more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 6
• עָזַב azav “to leave” 5
• מַעֲרָכָה maarakhah “rank” 3
• אָב av “father” 6
• מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 4
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 4
• אַל al “not” 4
• נַחֲלָה nachalah “inheritance” 3
• מָה mah “what?” 4
• רְפָאִים rephaim “Rephaim” 2
• בַּז baz “plunder” 2
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 3

Key verses

The verses using natash that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 32:15 — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly…
• 1 Samuel 12:22 — For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• 1 Samuel 17:28 — And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with…
• Psalms 27:9 — Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
• Psalms 94:14 — For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
• Proverbs 1:8 — My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Proverbs 17:14 — The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
• Isaiah 2:6 — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they…
• Jeremiah 7:29 — Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his…
• Jeremiah 15:6 — Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
• Jeremiah 23:39 — Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
• Amos 5:2 — The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.