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# נָתַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5425

**be free** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be free [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5425/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָתַר²: vb. be free, loose [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5425/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be free, loose (? usu. placed sub I., but connexion not obvious; cf. also NH Niph. free oneself, Hiph. = BH; perhaps cp. Arabic نَتَرَ rend a garment, break string (of bow), etc.);— Impf. 3 ms. juss. יַתֵּר Jb 6:9, sf. וַיַּתִּירֵהוּ ψ 105:20; Inf. abs. הַתֵּר Is 58:6; Pt. מַתִּיר ψ 146:7;— unfasten, loosen, c. acc. rei thongs of yoke Is 58:6 (‖ פַּתֵּחַ, תְּנַתֵּ֑קוּ). set free, unbind c. acc. pers., prisoners ψ 105:20 (‖ וַיְפַתְּחֵהוּ), 146:7; fig. יַתֵּר יָדוֹ Jb 6:9 that he would let loose his hand and cut me off,—וַיַּתֵּר 2 S 22:33 was poss. connected by Mass with תּוּר (v. Comm.), but read וַיִּתֵּן (as ‖ ψ 18:33).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: may he loosen (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.9/#tree)

וְיֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗וֹ וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and may.he.be.willing God and may he.crush.me may.he.loosen hand his and may he.cut.me.off

*JPS 1917:* Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5425.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5425/): 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).