נָתַשׁnâthash
pull or pluck up, root out
Pronunciation: naw-thash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5428
Meanings
Qal: once of cities, pull or pluck up (1 Kings 14:15; Psalms 9:7; Deuteronomy 29:27)
Niph`al: be rooted up (Jeremiah 31:40; Daniel 11:4; Amos 9:15)
Hoph`al: was rooted up (Ezekiel 19:12)
Where it appears
Appears 21 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 In great anger and fury the Lord uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’
- 1 Kings 14:15 Then the Lord will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the Lord with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
- Psalms 9:6 The enemy is finished, in endless ruins; the cities you uprooted are now forgotten.
- Jeremiah 1:10 Today I appoint you to stand up against nations and kingdoms. Some you must uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow. Others you must build up and plant.”
- Jeremiah 12:14 Now this is what the Lord says: “I will uproot from their land all the evil nations reaching out for the possession I gave my people Israel. And I will uproot Judah from among them.
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).