נָטָה nâṭâh — to stretch or spread out
Translated in the KJV as afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend.
a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows).
nâṭâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 30Participle (passive) 30Wayyiqtol 28Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Participle (active) 12Imperative 11Infinitive construct 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Jussive 3
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Hiph'il
Imperative 20Perfect (qatal) 16Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Wayyiqtol 11Infinitive construct 7Participle (active) 3Jussive 3
And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›