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title: נָתַשׁ — pull up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָתַשׁ (5428), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: pull up. BDB 1906: vb. pull pluck up, root out Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָתַשׁ

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«נָתַשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pull up** — 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:** 5428 · **BDB:** נָתַשׁ

### Glosses

I.will.pluck.up (3); pluck.up (3); I (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pull up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5428/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pull pluck up, root out Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5428/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pull or pluck up, root out, especially in Je and later (Ecclus Impf. 3 fs. תנתש נטע 3:9; NH = BH; 𝔗 נְתַשׁ id.; Syriac ܢܬܰܫ tear off, away; Arabic نَتَشَ is loan-wd. Frä 137);— Pf. 3 ms. וְנָתַשׁ consec. 1 K 14:15; 2 ms. נָתַשְׁתָּ ψ 9:7, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיִּתְּשֵׁם Dt 29:27; 1 s. אֶתּשׁ Je 12:14, אֶתּוֹשׁ 24:6; 42:10; Inf. abs. נָתוֹשׁ Je 12:17; cstr. לִנְתֿוֹשׁ Je 1:10; 18:7, לִנְתֹשׁ 31:28 (on תֿ v. Ges§ 45 g); sf. נָתְשִׁי 12:15; Pt. act. נֹתֵשׁ 45:4, sf. נֹתְשָׁם 12:14;—pull or pluck up, c. acc. Asherim Mi 5:13 (מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ); especially of nation, וְנ׳ אֶת־יִשׂ׳ מֵעַל הָאֲדָמָה 1 K 14:15, so Dt 29:27; Je 12:14; 2 Ch 7:20; אֶתּשׁ מִתּוֹכָם Je 12:14; without מֵעַל וְגו׳ Je 12:15, 17; opp. נָטַע 45:4; obj. om. 24:6; 42:10 (both opp. נָטַע); so inf. abs. נָתוֹשׁ וְאַבֵּד 12:17; inf. cstr. לִנְתֿוֹשׁ Je 1:10 = 18:7 cf. 31:28 (v. נתץ Qal 2 a); once of cities עָרִים נ׳ ψ 9:7 thou hast uprooted cities. Impf. 3 ms. יִנָּתֵשׁ Je 31:40 it shall not be rooted up (‖ יֵהָרֵם, ref. to the city Jerus.); 3 fs. תִּנָּתֵשׁ Dn 11:4 of kingdom; 3 mpl. יִנָּֽתְשׁוּ מֵעַל אַדְמָתָם Am 9:15 (of Isr.; opp. נָטַע).—For יִנָּֽתְשׁוּ. Je 18:14 read יִנָּֽשְׁתוּ √ נשׁת q.v. Impf. 3 fs. וַתֻּתַּשׁ Ez 19:12 and she was rooted up (of Isr., under fig. of vine).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָתַשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5428/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Micah 5:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.13/)

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וְנָתַשְׁתִּ֥י אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָ מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖י עָרֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.pluck.up poles your.Asherah from midst your and I.will.destroy cities your

*JPS 1917:* And I will pluck up thy Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thine enemies.

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[Psalms 9:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.7/)

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הָֽאוֹיֵ֨ב ׀ תַּ֥מּוּ חֳרָב֗וֹת לָ֫נֶ֥צַח וְעָרִ֥ים נָתַ֑שְׁתָּ אָבַ֖ד זִכְרָ֣ם הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* the enemy they.have.come.to.an.end ruins to perpetuity and cities you.have.plucked.up it.has.perished remembrance their they

*JPS 1917:* O thou enemy, the waste places are come to an end for ever; and the cities which thou didst uproot, their very memorial is perished.

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