נָתַקnâthaq
pull, draw, tear away, apart, off
Pronunciation: naw-thak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5423
Meanings
Qal: Passive participle (Judges 20:32; Jeremiah 22:24; Leviticus 22:24)
1. draw away (Judges 20:32)
2. draw, pull off (Jeremiah 22:24)
3. pull, tear away (Leviticus 22:24)
Niph`al
1. of soles of feet, be drawn away (Joshua 8:16; Joshua 4:18)
2. be torn apart, in two, snapped (Isaiah 5:27; Judges 16:9; Ecclesiastes 4:12)
3. be separated (Jeremiah 6:29)
Pi`el
1. tear apart, snap (Judges 16:9; Judges 16:12; Nahum 1:13)
2. tear out, up (Ezekiel 17:9; Ezekiel 23:34)
Hiph`il
1. draw away (Joshua 8:6)
2. drag them away (Jeremiah 12:3)
Hoph`al: they were drawn away from the city (Judges 20:31)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 27 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 22:24 If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you may not offer it to the Lord. You must never do this in your own land,
- Joshua 4:18 As soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant came up out of the riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned and overflowed its banks as before.
- Joshua 8:6 We will let them chase us until we have drawn them away from the town. For they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ Then, while we are running from them,
- Joshua 8:16 Then all the men in the town were called out to chase after them. In this way, they were lured away from the town.
- Judges 16:9 She had hidden some men in one of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as a piece of string snaps when it is burned by a fire. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
- Judges 16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them. The men were hiding in the inner room as before, and again Delilah cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But again Samson snapped the ropes from his arms as if they were thread.
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).