נָטַל
to bear
‘to bear’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5190 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 40:15 יִטּֽוֹל Qal impf 3ms Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
- Isaiah 63:9 וַֽ/יְנַטְּלֵ֥/ם conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Lamentations 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb נטל centers on the idea of “to bear.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. Debuting at 2 Samuel 24:12, it then recurs through the corpus. Across 2 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Piel). For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5190 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 2 verses 50%
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 25%
- Lamentations 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Behold he taketh up 1×, He bare 1×, He hath borne 1×
- American Standard Version: Behold 1×, He hath laid it upon him 1×, I offer 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Am offering 1×, Has laid it 1×, He lifted them up 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Am lifting 1×, He has laid it 1×, He lifted them up 1×
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5190 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. נ׳ La 3:28; Impf. 3 ms. יִטּוֹל Is 40:15; Pt. act. נוֹטֵל 2 S 24:12;—lift, c. acc. Is 40:15 (fig. subj. י׳); lift over thee (על) i.e. offer 2 S 24:12, but read נוֹטֶה (as ‖ 1 Ch 21:10) We Bu HPS; lift (and lay) upon (עַל) La 3:28. e.g. Lamentations 3:28
Piel
- Impf. sf. וַיְנַטְּלֵם Is 63:9 and he bare them, fig. of י׳ bearing his people (‖ וַיְנַשְּׂאֵם). e.g. Isaiah 63:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. lift, bear (rare synon. of נָשָׂא; Biblical Aramaic 𝔗 נְטַל lift; hence specif., Syriac ܢܛܰܠ sustulit (aquam), further, be heavy; also borrowed and denom. forms in Arabic and NH, cf. Frä 65 f.);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primary root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָטַל
- 1. to move, carry off; to receive, take. B. Mets. I, 1 זה נוֹטֵל וכ׳ the one (of the claimants) gets three shares &c. Y. Sot. I, 16ᵈ bot., a. e. ומה שכר נָטְלוּ על כך what reward did they get for it?—Sifra Sh’mini, beg. מסיני נטלו להם they got (their punishment) from Sinai. Sabb. 151ᵇ טוֹל מה וכ׳ take away what thou hast put into me. Arakh. 16ᵇ; B. Bath. 15ᵇ טול קיסם מבין עיניך (Ag. Hatt. שיניך) remove the chip from between thy eyes (teeth); טול קורה וכ׳ remove the beam from &c. Gitt. VI, 1 אף האומרת טול לי גטי even if she says, get me my letter of divorce (instead of ‘receive for me’). Ib. 78ᵃ טְלִי גיטיך וכ׳ take up thy letter of divorce from the ground. Pesik. R. s. 26, end נָטַלְתִּי עיני I lifted up my eyes. Ber. II, 8 לא כל הרוצה לִיטּוֹל לו את השם יִטּוֹל Y. ed., not every one who desires to assume a name, may assume it, i.e. not every one has a right to consider himself superior to the masses (v. יוֹהֲרָא); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. נָטוּל; f. נְטוּלָה removed. Ned. XI, 12 (if a woman says) נ׳ אני מן היהודים I will be removed from (keep no company with) Jews; יפר … ותהא נ׳ וכ׳ the husband may forbid the vow as far as it concerns himself, and (for the rest) let her be isolated &c.—Snh. 21ᵇ נְטוּלֵי טחול persons who had their milt cut out (to make them fast runners).—V. נְטוּלָה.
- 2. (sub. מים) to pour water over one’s hands for purification; נ׳ לידים, (ellipt.) נ׳ ידים, or only נ׳ to wash the hands before and after meals, before prayer &c. Tosef. Yad. I, 1 מי רביעית נוֹטְלִין לידים וכ׳ (Var. ed. Zuck., a. Mish. ib. I, 1 נותנין) a quantity of one fourth of a Log of water may be used for pouring over the hands of one person &c. Ib. 13 הנוֹטֵל לידים הנוטל מתכוין והנותן וכ׳ if a person had his hands washed, himself having the intention (of purification), while he who poured it had not. Ib. 2; Mish. ib. II, 3 נ׳ את הראשונים if he began to use the water for washing before the meal (v. מַיִם). Ḥull. 107ᵃ נוטלין ממנו לידים you may use it for washing the hands; Tosef. l. c. 6. Ber. VIII, 2. Ib. 51ᵃ אל תִּטּוֹל ידיך ממי וכ׳ have not water poured over thy hands by one who has not washed his hands &c. Ḥull. 105ᵃ נוטלין … בכלי you must wash over a vessel (receiving the water); ע"ג קרקע on the floor; a. v. fr.
- 1. to be handled. Sabb. XVII, 1 (122ᵇ) כל הכלים נִיטְּלִין בשבת all vessels (implements, utensils &c.) may be handled on the Sabbath. Ib. 43ᵃ, a. e. אין כלי נ׳ אלא לדבר הנ׳ בשבת a utensil must not be handled on the Sabbath except for the protection of a thing which may be used on the Sabbath. Par. V, 9 והן יכולות להִנָּטֵל וכ׳ and they can be handled simultaneously; a. fr.
- 2. to be removed, be gone. Ḥull. III, 1; 2, v. כָּבֵר III. Ohol. II, 3 כדי שיִנָּטֵל מן כ׳ as much of it as, if cut out from the skull of a living being, would cause death; a. fr.
- 3. to be used for washing hands. Tosef. Yad. II, 7 לא נִטְּלוּ מן הכלי the water was not poured directly from the vessel; לא ניטלו מן הרביעית not poured from a vessel containing one fourth of a Log; a. fr.
- 1. to throw; to put; to hang on, attach. Gitt. V, 9 משתַּטִּיל המים from the time she pours water on the flour. Yoma III, 2 המַטִּיל מים who urinates. Men. 40ᵇ ה׳ לבעלת וכ׳ if he attached the fringe (תְּכֵלֶת) to a three-cornered garment. Sabb. 42ᵇ להַטִּיל ביצתה to lay her eggs; a. fr.
- 2. (of plants) to assume the shape of, to develop. Maasr. I, 2 משיַטִּילוּ שאור, v. שְׂאוֹר; ib. משיטילו גידין, v. גִּיד.
- to be thrown; to lie. Part. מוּטָּל, f. מוּטֶּלֶת; pl. מוּטָּלִים, מוּטָּלִין; מוּטָּלוֹת a) lying. Kidd. 82ᵇ מ׳ ברעב lies prostrated from starvation. Ber. III, 1 מי שמתו מ׳ לפניו he whose dead relative lies before him; ib. 18ᵃ כיון שמ׳ עליו לקוברו כמ׳ וכ׳ since the duty of burying rests upon him, it is the same as if the body were lying before him. Yeb. 37ᵇ, a. fr. ממון המ׳ בספק, v. סָפֵק; a. fr.—b) מוּטֶּלֶת a garment provided with show-fringes. Men. l. c. הטיל למ׳ if he attached additional fringes to a garment provided &c.; a. fr.
נְטַל
- 1. (corresp. to h. נָשָׂא) to take, lift, move, carry. Targ. Ex. X, 13. Targ. Ps. CXXXIV, 2 טוּלוּ (imperat.); a. fr.
- 2. (corresp. to h. נָסַע) to move. Targ. Gen. XX, 1. Targ. Ps. LV, 9 נָטְלָא (Bxt. נטילה; h. text סעה); a. fr.
- 3. to wash the hands. Y. Ber. VIII, 12ᵃ bot. הוה נ׳ ידיה is to be considered as if he had washed his hands.
- to lift, carry. Targ. O. Deut. XXXII, 11. Targ. Is. LXIII, 9; a. e.—Part. pass. מְנַטַּל, מְנַטְּלָא; f. מְנַטְּלָא; pl. מְנַטְּלִין, מְנַטְּלַיָּא; מְנַטְּלָתָא exalted, high. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVIII, 13 (opp. מאיסין). Targ. Y. I ib. IV, 7. Targ. Is. LVII, 15. Targ. II Esth. I, 2. Targ. Prov. XXX, 13. Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 1 (not מַנְטְלַ׳). Targ. Is. II, 14.
- 1. to cause to move, to pass. Targ. Ex. XV, 22. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 26. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVI, 9; a. fr.
- 2. to throw; א׳ (ב)אבנין to stone to death. Targ. Y. Deut. XIII, 11 תְאַנְטלוּן, תְאַטְּ׳ (!); a. fr.—[Targ. Y. II, Ex. XXXIII, 22, v. טְלַל.]
- ; Ithpe. אִתְנְטִיל, אִינְּ׳
- 1. to be lifted up; to be exalted. Targ. Ps. XC, 2. Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 1; a. e.
- 2. to lift one’s self up, be overbearing. Targ. Y. Num. XVII, 5.
- 3. to be taken away, removed. Targ. Job IV, 21. Targ. Esth. VIII, 10; a. e.—[Snh. 91ᵃ (quot. fr. Meg. Taan. ch. III) אתנטילו דימוסנאי, v. דִּימוֹסְנָאֵי.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H5190 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽ/יְנַטְּלֵ֥/ם | Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 63:9 | 1 |
| יִטּֽוֹל | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 40:15 | 1 |
| נָטַ֖ל | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Lamentations 3:28 | 1 |
| נוֹטֵ֣ל | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 24:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5190, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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