# נָטַשׁ (natash) Israeli respelling: na-tash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H5203. 39 Old Testament occurrences. 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, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.) King James renderings: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/natash-h5203 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 31:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/28) — And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. - [Exodus 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/11) — 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… - [Numbers 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/31) — 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 th… - [Deuteronomy 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/15) — 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… - [Judges 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/13) — 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 fat… - [Judges 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/9) — Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. - [1 Samuel 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/2) — And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and the… - [1 Samuel 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/2) — 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 wil… - [1 Samuel 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/22) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/20) — 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 th… - [1 Samuel 17:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/22) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/28) — 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 do… - [1 Samuel 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/16) — 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… - [2 Samuel 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/18) — The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. - [2 Samuel 5:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/22) — And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. - [1 Kings 8:57](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/57) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/14) — 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 spo… - [Nehemiah 10:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/31) — 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… - [Psalms 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/9) — 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 sal… - [Psalms 78:60](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/60) — So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; - [Psalms 94:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/14) — For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. - [Proverbs 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/8) — My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: - [Proverbs 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/20) — My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: - [Proverbs 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/14) — The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. - [Isaiah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/6) — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philist… - [Isaiah 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/8) — For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they ar… - [Isaiah 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/15) — For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. - [Isaiah 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/14) — 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 w… - [Isaiah 33:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/23) — 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 divi… - [Jeremiah 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/29) — 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 ge… - [Jeremiah 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/7) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/6) — 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 we… - [Jeremiah 23:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/33) — 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, W… - [Jeremiah 23:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/39) — 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… - [Ezekiel 29:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/5) — 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… - [Ezekiel 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/12) — 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… - [Ezekiel 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/4) — 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… - [Hosea 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/14) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/2) — The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.