Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
KJV Usage: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָטַשׁ (na.tash) — to leave. 1) to leave, permit, forsake, cast off or away, reject, suffer, join, spread out or abroad, be loosed, cease, abandon, quit, hang loose, cast down, make a raid, lie fallow, let fall, forgo, draw 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to leave, let alone, lie fallow, entrust to 1a2) to forsake, abandon 1a3) to permit 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be forsaken 1b2) to be loosened, be loose 1b3) to be let go, spread abroad 1c) (Pual) to be abandoned, be deserted
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · נְטִישָׁה
Release | verb nif
to hang loose = process by which ropes that used to be tightly strung begin to hang loose
Release | verb qal
to scatter, to strew = causative process by which deities cause a swarm of flying birds lose its cohesion and fall apart
Non-Whole | verb qal ptc.pass
to draw literally: released; hence: = state in which a sword has been removed from its scabbard
Intense | verb qal
to spread, to become intense literally: to be released; hence: = process by which an event increases in intensity
Non-Possess | verb qal
to release, to relinquish = action by which humans relinquish their rights to an object, either temporarily or permanently
Non-Engage | verb qal
to cease, to reject = action by which humans or deities suspend their commitment to a certain pattern of behavior
Scatter | verb nif, verb qal
to scatter, to spread literally: to release oneself; hence: = action by which humans divide themselves and move into many different directions
Unfaithful | verb qal, verb nif, verb pu'al | ≈ עזב
to leave, to forsake, to abandon literally: to release; hence: = action by which animals, humans, or deities suspend their commitment to (other) objects, animals, humans, or deities, either temporarily or permanently
DEU 32:15 · JDG 6:13 · 1SA 12:22 · 1SA 17:20 · 1SA 17:22 · 1SA 17:28 · 1KI 8:57 · 2KI 21:14 · PSA 27:9 · PSA 78:60 · PSA 94:14 · ISA 2:6 · ISA 32:14 · JER 7:29 · JER 12:7 · JER 15:6 · JER 23:33 · JER 23:39 · EZK 29:5 · EZK 31:12 · EZK 31:12 · EZK 32:4 · AMO 5:2
Willing | verb qal
to permit, to allow, to let litterally: to release (someone to do something); hence: = action by which humans give other humans the opportunity to do something
1 ISA 21:15 RSV NIV NRSV ESV "drawn" NJB "naked" | NJPS "whetted" REB "sharp"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
נָטַשׁ vb. leave, forsake, permit Qal leave, let alone
usu. forsake, abandon
permit
Niph. be forsaken
be loosened or loose (prop. be let alone, left to hang down) of ship’s tackle
be let go, spread abroad
Pu. palaces are abandoned, deserted
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