Lexical Summary nathach: to cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints Original Word: נָתַחTransliteration: nathach Phonetic Spelling: (naw-thakh') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints Meaning: to cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints Strong's Concordance cut in pieces, divide, hew in pieces A primitive root; to dismember -- cut (in pieces), divide, hew in pieces. Brown-Driver-Briggs 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 Leviticus 8:20, וְנִתַּח consecutive 1:6, 12; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיְנַתַּח 1 Kings 18:33, suffix וַיְנַתְּחֵ֫הוּ 1 Samuel 11:7, וַיְנַתְּחֶ֫הָ Judges 19:29, etc.; — cut up, in pieces, with accusative of animals 1 Samuel 11:7, of woman Judges 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 19:29; of sacrificial animals 1 Kings 18:23, 33 (accusative only), Exodus 29:17; Leviticus 1:6, 12; 8:20 (all P). |
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