נָטָה nâṭâh

Meaning

to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application

In the King James Version: [phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• 2 Samuel 6:10 So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
• 2 Samuel 6:17 So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
• 2 Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
• 2 Samuel 19:14 So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
• 2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
• 2 Samuel 22:10 He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
• 1 Kings 2:28 When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
• 1 Kings 8:42 for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
• 1 Kings 8:58 May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
• 1 Kings 11:2 These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
• 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
• 1 Kings 11:4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
• 1 Kings 11:9 Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
• 2 Kings 17:36 Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.
• 2 Kings 19:16 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
• 2 Kings 20:10 “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
• 2 Kings 21:13 I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
• 1 Chronicles 13:13 So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
• 1 Chronicles 15:1 David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
• 1 Chronicles 16:1 So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
• 1 Chronicles 21:10 “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
• 1 Chronicles 21:16 When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
• 2 Chronicles 1:4 Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
• 2 Chronicles 6:32 And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
• Ezra 7:28 and who has shown me favor before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officials. And because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, I took courage and gathered the leaders of Israel to return with me.
• Ezra 9:9 Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
• Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
• Job 15:25 For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
• Job 15:29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
• Job 23:11 My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
• Job 24:4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
• Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
• Job 31:7 If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
• Job 36:18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
• Job 38:5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
• Psalms 17:6 I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.
• Psalms 17:11 They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,
• Psalms 18:9 He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
• Psalms 21:11 Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
• Psalms 27:9 Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
• Psalms 31:2 Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
• Psalms 40:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
• Psalms 44:18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
• Psalms 45:10 Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
• Psalms 49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
• Psalms 62:3 How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
• Psalms 71:2 In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
• Psalms 73:2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.
• Psalms 78:1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
• Psalms 86:1 A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
• Psalms 88:2 May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
• Psalms 102:2 Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
• Psalms 102:11 My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Psalms 104:2 He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
• Psalms 109:23 I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
• Psalms 116:2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
• Psalms 119:36 Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
• Psalms 119:51 The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
• Psalms 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
• Psalms 119:157 Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.