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title: נָטַל — lift · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָטַל (5190), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: lift. BDB 1906: vb. lift, bear. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָטַל

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«נָטַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lift** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 5190 · **BDB:** נָטַל

### Glosses

\[am\].laying (1); he (1); he.has.laid.\[it\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָטַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5190/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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