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# נָתַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5423

**pull** — used 27 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

pull [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5423/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָתַק: vb. Qal Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5423/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pull, draw, tear away, apart, off (NH id.; 𝔗 נְתַק in der. species (rare), pull off, tear off; Chr Pal. Aramaic ܢܬܩ shake off, SchwallyIdiot. 58; Arabic نَتَقَ pull off, draw out, shake; Di 660 cp. Ethiopic ነተገ, ነትገ detrahere, etc.);— Pf. 1 pl. sf. וּנְתַקְּנוּהוּ consec. Ju 20:32 (on d. f. dirim. v. Ges§ 20 h); Impf. 1 s. sf. אֶתְּקֶנְךָּ Je 22:24 (cf. Ges§ 58, i); Pt. pass. נָתוּק Lv 22:24;— draw away warriors from (כִון) city, unto (אֶל־) high road Ju 20:32. draw or pull off ring from (מִן) finger Je 22:24 (fig. of rejection of king of Judah by י׳). pull, tear away Lv 22:24 (pass., of testicles, + מָעוּךְ, כָּתוּת, כָּרוּת). Pf. 3 ms. נִתַּק Is 5:27; 3 pl. נִתְּקוּ Jos 4:18; Jb 17:11, נִתָּ֑קוּ Je 6:29; 10:20; Impf. 3 ms. יִנָּתֵק Ju 16:9 + 2 times; 3 mpl. וַיִּנָּֽתְקוּ Jos 8:16, יִנָּתֵ֑קוּ Is 33:20;— be drawn away from (מִן) city Jos 8:16 (cf. Qal 1); of soles of feet, be drawn out (from water) unto (אֶל־) dry ground 4:18. be torn apart, or in two, snapped: of sandal-thong Is 5:27, strand of tow Ju 16:9 (sim.), cord Ec 4:12; especially tent-cord (in fig.) Is 33:20 Je 10:20, so יִנָּתֵק מֵאָהֳלוֹ מִבְטַחוֹ Jb 18:14; metaph. of plans (זִמֹּת) 17:11. be separated, in smelting, fig., רָעִים לֹא נִתָּ֑קוּ Je 6:29. Pf. 1 s. נִתַּקְתִּי Je 2:20; 3 pl. נִתְּקוּ 5:5; Impf. 3 ms. יְנַתֵּק Ez 17:9 ψ 107:14, וַיְנַתֵּק Ju 16:9, sf. וַיְנַתְּקֵם v 12; 2 fs. תְּנַתֵּ֑קִי Ez 23:34; 1 s. אֲנַתֵּק Na 1:13; 1 pl. נְנַתְּקָה cohort. ψ 2:3; 2 mpl. תְּנַתֵּ֑קוּ Is 58:6;— tear apart, snap, c. acc. הַיְתָרִים Ju 16:9 the cords, v 12 (+ מֵעַל זְרֹעֹתָיו); especially c. acc. מוֹסֵרוֹת, bonds (fig.) Na 1:13; Je 2:20; 5:5; 30:8 ψ 2:3; 107:14; obj. מוֹטָה Is 58:6 (‖ פַּתֵּחַ, and הַתֵּר אֲגֻדּוֹת מוֹטָה). tear out, up, obj. roots Ez 17:9 (in fig.); tear out, away, obj. breasts 23:34 (in violent fig. of Jerus. as drunken woman). Inf. cstr. sf. הַתִּיקֵנוּ: draw away warriors from (מִוֹ city Jos 8:6 (= Qal 1). Imv. ms. sf. הַתִּקֵם drag them away like sheep to slaughter Je 12:3 (of י׳’s dealing with wicked). Pf. (si vera l.) הָנְתְּקוּ מִן־הָעִיר Ju 20:31 they were drawn away from the city (cf. Niph. 1), but prob. gloss, v. GFM.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 26 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will tear apart (2); he tore apart (2); they were drawn out (2).

## In the verses

[Job 17:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.11/#tree)

יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* days my they.have.passed plans my they.have.been.torn.apart the.wishes my.heart my

*JPS 1917:* My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

[Psalms 2:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.3/#tree)

נְֽ֭נַתְּקָה אֶת־מֽוֹסְרוֹתֵ֑ימוֹ וְנַשְׁלִ֖יכָה מִמֶּ֣נּוּ עֲבֹתֵֽימוֹ׃

*Word for word:* let.us.tear.apart (et) fetters their and let.us.throw away from.us ropes their

*JPS 1917:* 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5423.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5423/): 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).