Word

נָתַח

nâthach · H5408 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

to cut in pieces

Causative action by which humans cut a dead body in pieces with a knife, usually in order to cook it or to burn it on an altar as a sacrifce

Examples
Exodus 29:17 “Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.
Leviticus 1:6 ‘He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
Leviticus 1:12 ‘He shall then cut it into its pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

9 occurrences in 4 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 6
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: they 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

9 occurrences in 4 groups

וֹhim 3
הָher 3
אַיִלram 2
פַּרbull 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for+ נֵתַחpiece 5
לto/for+ עֶצֶםbone 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Non-Whole002003001021: The word describes cutting an animal into pieces, as the sacrificial ram is cut into its parts (Exodus 29:17, Leviticus 1:6, 1:12), tying the word to this dividing of a whole carcass.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָתַחnâthach · H5408נֵתַח nêthach · H5409 · piece · 13×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5408. nathach [נָתַח verb only Pi`el cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints (Dr1811, 7;…

H5408. nathach
[נָתַח verb only
Pi`el cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints (Dr1811, 7; Late Hebrew id., Pi`el; rare); —
Pi`el Perfect נִתַּח Lev 8:20, וְנִתַּח consecutive Lev 1:6, Lev 1:12; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיְנַתַּח 1Ki 18:33, suffix וַיְנַתְּחֵ֫הוּ 1Sa 11:7, וַיְנַתְּחֶ֫הָ Jdg 19:29, etc.; — cut up, in pieces, with accusative of animals 1Sa 11:7, of woman Jdg 20:6 (all these to be sent about as token for assembling warriors; on significance of the practice compare RSSem i. 383; 2nd ed. 402); elsewhere usually + לִנְתָחִים, cut up into pieces, of woman Jdg 19:29; of sacrificial animals 1Ki 18:23, 1Ki 18:33 (accusative only), Exo 29:17; Lev 1:6, Lev 1:12; Lev 8:20 (all P).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Whole9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0