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# נָטַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5190

**lift** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lift [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5190/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָטַל: vb. lift, bear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5190/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lift, bear (rare synon. of נָשָׂא; Biblical Aramaic 𝔗 נְטַל lift; hence specif., Syriac ܢܛܰܠ sustulit (aquam), further, be heavy; also borrowed and denom. forms in Arabic and NH, cf. Frä 65 f.);— Pf. 3 ms. נ׳ La 3:28; Impf. 3 ms. יִטּוֹל Is 40:15; Pt. act. נוֹטֵל 2 S 24:12;—lift, c. acc. Is 40:15 (fig. subj. י׳); lift over thee (על) i.e. offer 2 S 24:12, but read נוֹטֶה (as ‖ 1 Ch 21:10) We Bu HPS; lift (and lay) upon (עַל) La 3:28. Impf. sf. וַיְנַטְּלֵם Is 63:9 and he bare them, fig. of י׳ bearing his people (‖ וַיְנַשְּׂאֵם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[am\] laying (1); he (1); he has laid \[it\] (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.28/#tree)

יֵשֵׁ֤ב בָּדָד֙ וְיִדֹּ֔ם כִּ֥י נָטַ֖ל עָלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* let.him.sit alone and let.him.be.silent (dm) he.has.laid.\[it\] on him

*JPS 1917:* Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him.

[Isaiah 40:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.15/#tree)

הֵ֤ן גּוֹיִם֙ כְּמַ֣ר מִדְּלִ֔י וּכְשַׁ֥חַק מֹאזְנַ֖יִם נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ הֵ֥ן אִיִּ֖ים כַּדַּ֥ק יִטּֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* there! nations \[are\].like a.drop from a.bucket and like.\[the\] dust of.balances they.are.regarded there! islands like.(the) fine \[dust\] he.lifts

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5190.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5190/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).