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Strong's H5203 נָטַשׁ (natash)

Natash means “cast off” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5203 — hydropikos (“have the dropsy”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5203
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 17

Strong's H5203 Quick Answer

Strong's H5203 נָטַשׁ (natash) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. natash (naw-tash') v. 1. (properly) to pound, i.e. smite 2. (by implication) (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse It has 39 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include upon, out, off, me, and down. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
natash (naw-tash') v. 1. (properly) to pound, i.e. smite 2. (by implication) (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
upon, out, off, me, and down

Meaning and Definition

natash (naw-tash') v. 1. (properly) to pound, i.e. smite 2. (by implication) (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse 3. also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.) [a primitive root] KJV: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.

Original Word
נָטַשׁ
Transliteration
natash
Derivation
Root: נטשׁ
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5203. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to leave

Usage: 1) to leave, permit, forsake, cast off or away, reject, suffer, join, spread out or abroad, be loosed, cease, abandon, quit, hang loose, cast down, make a raid, lie fallow, let fall, forgo, draw 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to leave, let alone, lie fallow, entrust to 1a2) to forsake, abandon 1a3) to permit 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be forsaken 1b2) to be loosened, be loose 1b3) to be let go, spread abroad 1c) (Pual) to be abandoned, be deserted

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How Strong's H5203 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render natash, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's H5203 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5203 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5203 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 31:28 KJV

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

Exodus 23:11 KJV

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Numbers 11:31 KJV

And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5203.

Genesis 31:28 Old Testament, KJV
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
Exodus 23:11 Old Testament, KJV
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Numbers 11:31 Old Testament, KJV
And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:15 Old Testament, KJV
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Judges 6:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Judges 15:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
1 Samuel 4:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1 Samuel 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1 Samuel 12:22 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel 17:20 Old Testament, KJV
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
1 Samuel 17:22 Old Testament, KJV
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
1 Samuel 17:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
1 Samuel 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
2 Samuel 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Kings 8:57 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
2 Kings 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
Nehemiah 10:31 Old Testament, KJV
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Psalms 27:9 Old Testament, KJV
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms 78:60 Old Testament, KJV
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Psalms 94:14 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Proverbs 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 6:20 Old Testament, KJV
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 17:14 Old Testament, KJV
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Isaiah 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Isaiah 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
Isaiah 21:15 Old Testament, KJV
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Isaiah 32:14 Old Testament, KJV
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah 33:23 Old Testament, KJV
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Jeremiah 7:29 Old Testament, KJV
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 12:7 Old Testament, KJV
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 23:33 Old Testament, KJV
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:39 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
Ezekiel 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
Ezekiel 31:12 Old Testament, KJV
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Ezekiel 32:4 Old Testament, KJV
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
Hosea 12:14 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.
Amos 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5203, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H5203 FAQ

What does natash (נָטַשׁ) mean?

Natash (Strong's H5203) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cast off". natash (naw-tash') v. 1. (properly) to pound, i.e. smite 2. (by implication) (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse

How many times is natash (נָטַשׁ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H5203 across 17 books.

Where can I study natash (נָטַשׁ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5203 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate natash (נָטַשׁ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as upon, out, off, me, down, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.