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Strong's #5408 - נָתַח
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- to cut, cut up, cut in pieces, divide
- (Piel) to cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints
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2449) htn (נתהה NTHh) AC: Cut CO: Piece AB: ?: [from: ht- dividing]
V) htn (נתהה NTHh) - Cut: To cut into pieces. KJV (9): (vf: Piel) cut, divide, hew - Strongs: H5408 (נָתַח)
Nm) htn (נתהה NTHh) - Piece: What has been cut. KJV (13): piece, part - Strongs: H5409 (נֵתַח)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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 Leviticus 1:6,12; Imperfect 3 masculine 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 RS Sem i. 383; 2nd ed. 402); elsewhere usually + לִנְתָחִים, cut up into pieces, of woman Judges 19:29; of sacrificial animals 1 Kings 18:23,33 (accusative only), Exodus 29:17; Leviticus 1:6,12; Leviticus 8:20 (all P).
נָתַח only in Piel נִתַּח to cut into pieces (an animal which had been slain), Exodus 29:17 Levit. 1:6, 12 8:20 the corpse of a person, Judges 20:6. Hence