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title: נָתַךְ — pour forth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָתַךְ (5413), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: pour forth. BDB 1906: vb. Niph. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָתַךְ

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«נָתַךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pour forth** — 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:** 21 times · **Key:** 5413 · **BDB:** נָתַךְ

### Glosses

it.was.poured.out (3); it.will.pour.forth (2); they.have.poured.out (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pour forth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5413/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. Niph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5413/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pour forth (intrans.), be poured out (NH id., Niph. flow, Hiph. melt (trans.); Assyrian natâku, flow DlHWB 487 Jäger BAS ii. 292; 𝔗 Aph. pour out, especially melt; Zinj. ליתכה (Haph.) Nö ZMG xlvii (1893), 98 Cook 83; Syriac ܢܬܰܟ (rare) PS 2480);— Impf. 3 fs. תִּתַּךְ Je 42:18 + 3 times, וַתִּתַּךְ Je 44:6 Dn 9:11; 3 mpl. וַיִּתְּכוּ Jb 3:24;—pour forth, always fig., וַיִּתּ׳ כַמַּיִם שַׁאֲגֹתָ֑י Jb 3:24 and my groans have poured forth like water; usually of divine wrath (חֵמָה) Je 42:18 (c. עַל־ pers.), 44:6 (abs.), 2 Ch 12:7; 34:25 (both c. בְּ loc. against); cf. also Dn 9:11 v 27 (both c. עַל־ pers.). Pf. 3 ms. נִתַּךְ Ex 9:33 + 2 times; 3 fs. נִתְּכָה Na 1:6 2 Ch 34:21, וְנִתְּכָה consec. Ez 24:11; 2 mpl. וְנִתַּכְתֶּם Ez 22:21; Pt. f. נִתֶּ֫כֶת Je 7:20;—be poured, of rain, אָ֑רְצָה Ex 9:33 (J), cf. נ׳ מַיִם עֲלֵיהֶם 2 S 21:10; be poured out, of wrath of י׳ Na 1:6 (abs.), Je 7:20 (c. אֶל־ loc.), 42:18 (c. עַל־ pers.), 2 Ch 34:21 (c. בְּ pers.); be poured forth i.e. melted, annihilated in the midst of (בְּתוֹךְ) the fire of י׳’s fury Ez 22:21 (subj. persons), so 24:11 (subj. impurity, fig. of caldron). Pf. 3 mpl. הִתִּיכוּ עֲבָדֶיךָ אֶת־הַכֶּסֶף 2 K 22:9 thy servants have poured out the money (‖ 2 Ch 34:12 infr.); 1 s. וְהִתַּכְתִּ֫י אֶתְכֶם consec. Ez 22:20 and I will melt you (fig. of judgment); Inf. cstr. לְהַנְתִּיךְ Ez 22:20 in order to melt it (i.e. metal in furnace; Co after 𝔊 𝔖 reads לְהִנָּתֵךְ Niph. Inf., so Berthol, cf. Toy); Impf. 3 mpl. וַיַּתִּיכוּ 2 Ch 34:17 (‖ 2 K 22:9 supr.); הֲלֹא כֶחָלָב תַּתִּיכֵנִי Jb 10:10 dost (= didst) thou not pour me out like milk? (of beginnings of life). Impf. 2 mpl. כֵּן תֻּתְּכוּ Ez 22:22 so shall ye be melted (fig. of judgment).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָתַךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5413/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 10:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.10/)

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הֲלֹ֣א כֶ֭חָלָב תַּתִּיכֵ֑נִי וְ֝כַגְּבִנָּ֗ה תַּקְפִּיאֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* ? not like (the) milk did you.pour.me.out and like (the) cheese did you.curdle.me?

*JPS 1917:* Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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[Job 3:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.24/)

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כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֣י לַ֭חְמִי אַנְחָתִ֣י תָבֹ֑א וַֽיִּתְּכ֥וּ כַ֝מַּ֗יִם שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) before food my groaning my it.comes and they.poured.forth like (the) water of.distress my.cries

*JPS 1917:* For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.

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