# H5203 נָטַשׁ

נָטַשׁ (nâṭash), Strong’s H5203: properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively,… KJV: cast…

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*nâṭash* — properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively,…

KJV: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose…

Occurs 40 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נָטַשׁ vb. leave, forsake, permit
- Qal
- 1 leave, let alone
- 2 usu. forsake, abandon
- 3 permit
- Niph.
- 1 be forsaken
- 2 be loosened or loose (prop. be let alone, left to hang down) of ship’s tackle
- 3 be let go, spread abroad
- Pu. palaces are abandoned, deserted

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=28) — and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
- [Exodus 23:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=11) — but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave…
- [Numbers 11:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=31) — A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on…
- [Deuteronomy 32:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=15) — But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned…
- [Judges 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=13) — Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his…
- [Judges 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=9) — Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- [1 Samuel 4:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=2) — The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the…
- [1 Samuel 10:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=2) — When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah…
- [1 Samuel 12:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=22) — For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a…
- [1 Samuel 17:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/17?v=20) — David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had…