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נָטַע

to plant

also: fasten, fix, establish fuller range ↓

H5193 Strong's Hebrew
nâṭaʻ Transliteration
/naw-tah'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 59 appearances

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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.

“to plant” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb נטע (nâṭaʻ). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:8. With 55 verses in 18 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 2 stems, among them Qal and Niphal. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fastened
Modern gloss
to plant
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H5193 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 →

55
distinct verses
The word appears in 55 distinct verses.
18 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 2:8
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 2:8.
Zephaniah 1:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zephaniah 1:13.
#647
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 647 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 55 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 11 · 20%
  • Historical 4 · 7%
  • Wisdom 11 · 20%
  • Prophets 29 · 53%

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 55 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 31 verses · 56%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 13 verses · 24%
  • Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 20%

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: Plant 12×, I will plant 4×, Planted 3×
  • American Standard Version: Plant 6×, Them 6×, Planted 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Plant 14×, Planted 6×, You will plant 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Plant 12×, He planted 3×, Planted 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5193 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Plant” 12×
  • “I will plant” 4×
  • “Planted” 3×
  • “They shall plant” 3×
  • “Hath planted” 2×
  • “I planted” 2×
  • “Will plant” 2×

Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5193 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Plant” 6×
  • “Them” 6×
  • “Planted” 4×
  • “I planted” 2×
  • “I will plant” 2×
  • “Reap and plant” 2×
  • “Will plant” 2×

Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5193 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Plant” 14×
  • “Planted” 6×
  • “You will plant” 5×
  • “Establish” 2×
  • “Has planted” 2×
  • “Plant them” 2×
  • “They will plant” 2×
  • “Will plant them” 2×

Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H5193 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Plant” 12×
  • “He planted” 3×
  • “Planted” 3×
  • “They will plant” 3×
  • “You will plant” 3×
  • “Has planted” 2×
  • “I planted” 2×
  • “I will plant him” 2×
  • “I will plant them” 2×
  • “You did” 2×

Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


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 4 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. Nu 24:6 +, 2 ms. נָטָ֑עְתָּ Dt 6:11, sf. 3 mpl. נְטַעְתָּם Je 12:2; 1 s. נָטַ֫עְתִּי Je 45:4 + 2 times, וְנָטַעְתִּ֫י Je 42:10 Ec 2:5, sf. נְטַעְתִּיךְ Je 2:21, וּנְטַעְתִּיו consec. 2 S 7:10 = וּנְטַעְתִּיהוּ 1 Ch 17:9, וּנְטַעְתִּים consec. Am 9:15 + 2 times, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִטַּע Dn 11:45, וַיִּטַּע Gn 2:8 + 2 times, sf. וַיִּטָּעֵ֫הוּ Is 5:2; 2 ms. תִּטַּע Dt 16:21 + 2 times, sf. 3 fs. וַתִּטָּעֶ֑הָ ψ 80:9; sf. 3 mpl. וַתִּטָּעֵ֫מוֹ Ex 15:17, וַתִּטָּעֵם ψ 44:3, etc.; Imv. נִטְעוּ Je 29:5 + 3 times; Inf. לִנְטֹעַ Is 51:16 Je 18:9, לִנְטוֹעַ Je 1:10; 31:28, לָטַעַת Ec 3:2; Pt. act. נוֹטֵעַ Je 11:17, נֹטַע ψ 94:9 (shewing orig. a according to LagBN 84); pl. נֹטְעִים Je 31:5; pass. נָטוּעַ Ec 3:2, pl. נְטוּעִים Ec 12:11;— e.g. Numbers 24:6
  • 1. plant, c. acc. of tree or vine Nu 24:6 (JE; subj. י׳), Gn 21:33 (J), Lv 19:23 (H), Is 44:14 ψ 106:16 (subj. י׳), Ec 2:5 also (fig. of people) Je 2:21; 11:17 ψ 80:9, 16; c. acc. of vineyard Gn 9:20 (J), Am 5:11; 9:14; 2 K 19:29 = Is 37:30; Zp 1:13; Dt 20:6; 28:30, 39 Je 31:5(×3); 35:7; Ez 28:26; Is 65:21; Pr 31:16 ψ 107:37; Ec 2:4; olive trees and vineyards Dt 6:11 Jos 24:13 (D); garden Gn 2:8 (י׳), Je 29:5, 28; so c. acc. אֲשֵׁרָה כָּל־עֵץ Dt 16:21; נ׳ נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים Is 17:10 (fig. of idolatry); abs. (lit.) Is 65:22; Ec 3:2(×2) (opp. עָקַר); c. 2 acc. Is 5:2 (plant vineyard with vine). e.g. Numbers 24:6
  • 2. plant, fig. = establish, usually of establishing people, c. acc. 2 S 17:10 = 1 Ch 17:9 Am 9:15 (opp. נָתַשׁ), Ez 36:36; Ex 15:17 (song), especially Je 24:6; 32:41 (ב loc.), 42:10 (opp. נָתַשׁ), 45:10 (opp. id., ψ 44:3 (all of establishing Isr.); of establishing wicked Je 12:2; abs. of establishing people Je 1:10; 18:9; 31:28; more lit., establish heavens Is 51:16 (‖ לִיסֹד אֶרֶץ); plant i.e. fix (late use) tents Dn 11:45; מַשְׂמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים Ec 12:11 nails planted, i.e. fixed in; even נ׳ אֹזֶן ψ 94:9 he that planted the ear. e.g. 2 Samuel 17:10

Niphal

  • Pf. 3 pl. נִמָּ֑עוּ Is 40:24 be planted, fig., = be established. e.g. Isaiah 40:24

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. plant (NH id., and deriv.; cf. Sab. נטעת pavilion [? as planted, established] DHM ZMG xxxvii. (1883), 337, 349);—

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: a primitive root

Part of speech: Verb TWOT: 1354


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.

נָטַע

  • (b. h.) [to fix,]
  • 1. = נָטָה, to pitch a tent; put up a temporary structure. Meg. 5ᵇ נטיעה של שמחה נ׳ he put up a temporary structure for a festive religious occasion, v. אַכְוַרְנְקָא. Ib. היכי נ׳ נטיעה וכ׳ how dared he put up a temporary structure on Purim?—Snh. 111ᵃ ביקש מקום לִנְטוֹעַ אהלו (Ex. R. s. 6 לִנְטוֹת) he wanted a place to put up his tent; a. fr.
  • 2. to insert, to plant, contrad. to זרע.Kil. II, 4 זרועה ונמלך לנוֹטְעָהּ if a field was sown, and he resolves to plant trees in it, לא יאמר אֶטַּע וכ׳ he must not say, I will first plant and then &c., v. אָפַךְ. Ib. I, 8 אין נוֹטְעִין ירקות וכ׳ you must not plant vegetables &c.; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. נָטוּעַ; f. נְטוּעָה; pl. נְטוּעִום, נְטוּעִין; נְטוּעוֹת. Ib. V, 1; 4; sq.; a. fr.—Trnsf. to beget. Y. Yeb. I, 2ᵇ, a. e., v. נְטִיעָה.
    • to be planted with trees. B. Bath. 24ᵇ; Erub. 23ᵇ נ׳ רובו if the larger portion of it was planted with trees, opp. נזרע. Ohol. XVIII, 3 אינה נִטַּעת כל נטע must not be planted with any kind of trees; Tosef. ib. XVII, 10; a. fr.

נֶטַע

  • (b. h.; preced.) plant, plantation. Koh. R. to IV, 6 כמה בית נ׳ וכ׳ how much land fit for plantation is in it?—נ׳ רבעי the fourth year’s fruits of a young tree (Lev. XIX, 24). Maas. Sh. V, 4; a. fr.; v. רְבָעִי. e.g. Leviticus 19:24

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 49 distinct written forms H5193 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
וְ/נָטְע֣וּ Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Amos 9:14 4
וְ/נִטְע֣וּ Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 29:5 2
וְ/נִטְע֥וּ Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 Kings 19:29 2
וּ/נְטַעְתִּ֖י/ם Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Amos 9:15 2
נְטַעְתֶּ֔ם Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Amos 5:11 2
נָטַ֖עְתִּי Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 36:36 2
נָטַ֥ע Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 20:6 2
תִּטַּ֖ע Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 28:30 2
הֲ/נֹ֣טַֽע Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct Psalms 94:9 1
הַ/נּוֹטֵ֣עַ Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Jeremiah 11:17 1
וְ/יִטַּע֙ Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Daniel 11:45 1
וְ/לִ/נְט֖וֹעַ Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct Jeremiah 31:28 1
וְ/לִ/נְטֹֽעַ Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct Jeremiah 18:9 1
וְ/לִ/נְטֽוֹעַ Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct Jeremiah 1:10 1
וְ/נָטַ֥עְתִּי Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 2:5 1
וְ/נָטַעְתִּ֥י Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 42:10 1
וְ/תִטָּעֵ֨/מוֹ֙ Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Exodus 15:17 1
וַ/יִּטְּע֣וּ Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Psalms 107:37 1
וַ/יִּטַּ֖ע Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Genesis 9:20 1
וַ/יִּטַּ֞ע Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Genesis 2:8 1
וַ/יִּטַּ֥ע Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Genesis 21:33 1
וַ/יִּטָּעֵ֨/הוּ֙ Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Isaiah 5:2 1
וַ/תִּטָּעֵ֑/ם Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 44:2 1
וַ/תִּטָּעֶֽ/הָ Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 80:8 1
וּ/נְטַעְתִּ֞י/ם Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 32:41 1
וּ/נְטַעְתִּ֨י/הוּ֙ Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 Chronicles 17:9 1
וּ/נְטַעְתִּי/ו֙ Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 2 Samuel 7:10 1
וּ/נְטַעְתֶּם֙ Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Leviticus 19:23 1
יִטְּע֖וּ Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Isaiah 65:22 1
לִ/נְטֹ֤עַ Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct Isaiah 51:16 1
לָ/טַ֔עַת Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct Ecclesiastes 3:2 1
נְטַעְתִּ֣י/ךְ Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 2:21 1
נְטַעְתָּ/ם֙ Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Jeremiah 12:2 1
נְטוּעִ֖ים Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Ecclesiastes 12:11 1
נִטָּ֗עוּ Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Isaiah 40:24 1
נָ֣טְעָה Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Proverbs 31:16 1
נָטְע֥וּ Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Jeremiah 31:5 1
נָטְעָ֣ה Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Psalms 80:15 1
נָטַ֣ע Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Numbers 24:6 1
נָטַ֥עְתִּי Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 2:4 1
נָטָ֑עְתָּ Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 6:11 1
נָטָֽע Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 104:16 1
נָטֽוּעַ Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Ecclesiastes 3:2 1
נֹטְעִ֖ים Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Jeremiah 31:5 1
נטע Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Proverbs 31:16 1
תִטַּ֥ע Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 16:21 1
תִטָּ֔עוּ Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 35:7 1
תִּטְּעִ֣י Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular Jeremiah 31:5 1
תִּטְּעִי֙ Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular Isaiah 17:10 1

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 52 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 55 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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