נֶ֫טַע
plant
also: plantation, planting fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H5194 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Job 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.
At its core, נטע (neṭaʻ) means “plant.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Isaiah (75%), then Job. Scripture first uses it in Job 14:9. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “plantation” and “planting”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5194 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 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 →
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: Like a plant 1×, Plant 1×, Plants 1×
- American Standard Version: Like a plant 1×, Plant 1×, Planting 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are the plant 1×, Plots 1×, Sapling 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is the planting of 1×, Plant 1×, Planting 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5194 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5194 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5194 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5194 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
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 3 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.
- 1. plantation Is 5:7 (fig. of Judah, planted by י׳); 17:10 (fig. of idolatry), so e.g. Isaiah 5:7
- 2. act of planting Is 17:11. e.g. Isaiah 17:11
- 3. plant Jb 14:9 (in sim.). e.g. Job 14:9
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
n.[m.] plantation, planting, plant;—abs. נָ֑טַע Jb 14:9; cstr. נְטַע Is 5:7; sf. נִטְעֵךְ Is 17:11; pl. cstr. נִטְעֵי Is 17:10;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נטע (nâṭaʻ) (H5193) — to plant.
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 4 distinct written forms H5194 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְטַ֖ע | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 5:7 | 1 |
| נִטְעֵ/ךְ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 17:11 | 1 |
| נִטְעֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 17:10 | 1 |
| נָֽטַע | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 14:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5194, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
