Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to tear away
KJV Usage: destroy, forsake, pluck (out, up, by the roots), pull up, root out (up), X utterly
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָתַשׁ (na.tash) — to uproot. 1) to pull up, expel, root out, pluck up 1a) (Qal) to pull or pluck up 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked up 1c) (Hophal) to be plucked up
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Detach | verb qal, verb hof
to uproot = causative action by which a plant or pole is pulled out of the ground; ≈ associated with destruction and exile
Non-Exist | verb qal, verb nif
to destroy literally: to uproot; hence: = causative action by which a town or land is destroyed, ◄ like a plant pulled out of the ground
Dry | verb nif
to run dry literally: to be uprooted; hence: = process by which a body of water ceases to flow and vanishes
End | verb nif
to be uprooted > come to an end literally: to be uprooted; hence: = process by which a state of affairs comes to a violent end
Move | verb qal, verb nif
to uproot, to expel literally: to uproot; hence: = causative action by which deities cause people to leave their land, ◄ like a plant pulled out of the ground
DEU 29:27 · 1KI 14:15 · 2CH 7:20 · JER 1:10 · JER 12:14 · JER 12:14 · JER 12:15 · JER 12:17 · JER 12:17 · JER 18:7 · JER 24:6 · JER 31:28 · JER 42:10 · AMO 9:15
1 JER 18:14 MT HOTTP-A | others emend the text to ינשׁתו but the same meaning can be obtained by interpreting the MT as a figurative extension of meaning of נתשׁ.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
נָתַשׁ vb. pull or pluck up, root out Qal pull or pluck up
Niph. it shall not be rooted up
Hoph. and she was rooted up
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