נֵ֫תַח
piece
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
- 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.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 9 times (69%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (23%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5409 appears — 9 distinct verses across 4 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.
Exodus 1 verse
Leviticus 5 verses
- Leviticus 1:6 לִ/נְתָחֶֽי/הָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.
- Leviticus 1:8 הַ/נְּתָחִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
- Leviticus 1:12 לִ/נְתָחָ֔י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
- Leviticus 8:20 לִ/נְתָחָ֑י/ו הַ/נְּתָחִ֖ים prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + n c mp He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
- Leviticus 9:13 לִ/נְתָחֶ֖י/הָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.
Judges 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 24:4 נְתָחֶ֨י/הָ֙ נֵ֥תַח n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs n c ms gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
- Ezekiel 24:6 לִ/נְתָחֶ֤י/הָ לִ/נְתָחֶ֨י/הָ֙ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
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.
נתח (nêthach) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “piece.” Leviticus dominates its distribution — 5 of 9 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Exodus 29:17. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5409 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
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 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 33%
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: Pieces 9×, Piece 3×
- American Standard Version: Pieces 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pieces 8×, Piece 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pieces 9×, Piece 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5409 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5409 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H5409 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5409 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- piece, a piece of flesh or meat
Word origin
n.m. Ez 24:4 piece of a divided carcass (Ecclus נתחים 50:12a);—abs. נ׳ Ez 24:4; pl. נְתָחִים Ju 19:29 + 2 times; sf. נְתָחָיו Ex 29:17(×2) + 2 times, נְתָחֶ֫יהָ Lv 1:6 + 3 times;—usually pl. pieces: of meat in a caldron (symbol. of Jerusalem) Ez 24:4(×2) (sg. only v 4b), v 6:6; of sacrif. animals Ex 29:17b Lv 1:8; 8:20b; 9:13; elsewhere לִנ׳ after vb. נִתַּח (q.v.): of woman Ju 19:29; Ex 29:17a Lv 1:6, 12; 8:20a. read נְתָחֶיהָ also Ez 24:5 for MT רתחיה Hi-Sm Co Berthol Toy SiegfKau Krae Da (‘poss.’).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נתח (nâthach) (H5408) — to cut.
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.
נָתַח
- (b. h.), Pi. נִתֵּחַ
- 1. to sever, dissect. Zeb. 85ᵃ יפשיט וִינַתֵּחַ וכ׳ he must flay and dissect it in its place (where he slaughtered it). Ḥull. 28ᵇ כיון שמְנַתְּחָהּ אבר אבר (not דמנ׳) since he cuts it into parts; a. fr.
- 2. to distrain, take by force, esp. to seize by waiting for the debtor to come out of the house with an object, opp. to מִשְׁכֵּן, to enter and seize. B. Mets. 113ᵃ אימא לא יְנַתְּחֶנּוּ וכ׳ read in the Mishnah (B. Mets. IX, 13), he must not seize his goods outside of his house except through the court messenger.
נְתַח
- Pa. נַתֵּחַ same,
- 1. as preced. 2. B. Mets. 113ᵃ נַתּוּחֵי אין וכ׳ the court messenger may distrain out side of the house, but enter and seize he dare not?
- 2. to tear, pull. Bets. 10ᵇ גוזלות מְנַתְּחֵי מהדדי (not אהדדי; Ms. M. מנתקי) pigeons might pull against each other (and tear the bands); Gitt. 51ᵃ
נִתַח
- preced.) piece.—Pl. נְתָחִים. Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., Par. 4, ch. V (ref. to Lev. I, 6) יכול ינתח נְתָחֶיהָ לנְתָחֵיהֶם you might think, he may cut its parts into their parts again; Ḥull. 11ᵃ ולא נתחיה לנ׳ but he must not cut &c.; a. e. e.g. Leviticus 1:6
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 12 distinct written forms H5409 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| לִ/נְתָחָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 29:17 | 2 |
| הַ/נְּתָחִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 1:8 | 1 |
| הַ/נְּתָחִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 8:20 | 1 |
| לִ/נְתָחֶ֖י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Leviticus 9:13 | 1 |
| לִ/נְתָחֶ֤י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 24:6 | 1 |
| לִ/נְתָחֶ֨י/הָ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 24:6 | 1 |
| לִ/נְתָחֶֽי/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Leviticus 1:6 | 1 |
| לִ/נְתָחָ֔י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Leviticus 1:12 | 1 |
| נְתָחִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 19:29 | 1 |
| נְתָחֶ֨י/הָ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 24:4 | 1 |
| נְתָחָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 29:17 | 1 |
| נֵ֥תַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 24:4 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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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