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.
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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).