נָטַעnâṭaʻ
plant
Pronunciation: naw-tah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5193
Meanings
Qal: active (Numbers 24:6; Deuteronomy 6:11; Jeremiah 12:2)
1. plant (Numbers 24:6; Genesis 21:33; Leviticus 19:23)
2. plant, figurative = establish, usually of establishing people (2 Samuel 17:10; 1 Chronicles 17:9; Amos 9:15)
Niph`al: be planted, figurative, = be established (Isaiah 40:24)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 58 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
- Genesis 9:20 After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.
- Genesis 21:33 Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he worshiped the Lord, the Eternal God.
- Exodus 15:17 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain— the place, O Lord, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.
- Leviticus 19:23 “When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, leave the fruit unharvested for the first three years and consider it forbidden. Do not eat it.
- Numbers 24:6 They spread before me like palm groves, like gardens by the riverside. They are like tall trees planted by the Lord, like cedars beside the waters.
See every passage
- Genesis 2:8, 9:20, 21:33
- Exodus 15:17
- Leviticus 19:23
- Numbers 24:6
- Deuteronomy 6:11, 16:21, 20:6, 28:30, 28:39
- Joshua 24:13
- 2 Samuel 7:10
- 2 Kings 19:29
- 1 Chronicles 17:9
- Psalms 44:2, 80:8, 80:15, 94:9, 104:16, 107:37
- Proverbs 31:16
- Ecclesiastes 2:4, 2:5, 3:2, 12:11
- Isaiah 5:2, 17:10, 37:30, 40:24, 44:14, 51:16, 65:21, 65:22
- Jeremiah 1:10, 2:21, 11:17, 12:2, 18:9, 24:6, 29:5, 29:28, 31:5, 31:28, 32:41, 35:7, 42:10, 45:4
- Ezekiel 28:26, 36:36
- Daniel 11:45
- Amos 5:11, 9:14, 9:15
- Zephaniah 1:13
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).