נָטַשׁ nâṭash — properly, to pound, i.e. smite
Translated in the KJV as cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join, leave, lie still, loose, spread abroad, stretch out, suffer.
a primitive root; properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.).
nâṭash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 9Perfect (qatal) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Jussive 4Participle (passive) 2Imperative 1
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 3Perfect (qatal) 3
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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 ›