נָטַע

Genesis 2:8 וַיִּטַּ֞ע and he planted

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

Here: The ordinary farming word for putting trees or vines into the ground (Deut 6:11; Isa 5:2). God does with his own hands what a farmer, or a king laying out an orchard park, would do. The verb form moves the story along: 'and then he planted'.

Genesis 9:20 וַיִּטַּ֖ע and he planted

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

Genesis 21:33 וַיִּטַּ֥ע and he planted

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

Here: An ordinary farming verb (to plant or set in the ground). Its form is the usual one for telling a story in sequence, so the planting follows right after the treaty of v. 32. The subject is only implied by context: Abraham.

Exodus 15:17 וְתִטָּעֵ֙מוֹ֙ and you will plant them

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

Here: 'And you will plant them.' Israel is pictured as a tree or vine that God sets into the ground so it can take root and stay. The image is permanence, not a stopover. It rhymes with the verb before it (-'emo / -'emo).

Leviticus 19:23 וּנְטַעְתֶּם֙ and you will plant

When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

Numbers 24:6 נָטַ֣ע [which] he has planted

They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

Deuteronomy 6:11 נָטָ֑עְתָּ you planted

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

Here: 'You did not plant': the slowest kind of labour, since you can wait years for the harvest. The Masoretic accents put the main break of the verse here.

Deuteronomy 16:21 תִטַּ֥ע you will plant

Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 20:6 נָטַ֥ע he has planted

Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:30 תִּטַּ֖ע you will plant

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Here: You will plant. This is the start of a wait of several years before any harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:39 תִּטַּ֖ע you will plant

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Joshua 24:13 נְטַעְתֶּ֔ם you had planted

So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’

Here: To plant, especially trees and vines. Planting meant years of waiting, so it marks the long investment someone else had already made.

2 Samuel 7:10 וּנְטַעְתִּיו֙ and I will plant it

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

Here: 'And I will plant him.' The suffix is singular, so the whole nation is pictured as one tree or vine set into the soil, rooted so that it stays put. Exile is pictured as the opposite: being uprooted.

2 Kings 19:29 וְנִטְע֥וּ and plant

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

1 Chronicles 17:9 וּנְטַעְתִּ֙יהוּ֙ and I will plant it

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

Here: A gardening and orchard word: putting a tree or vine into the ground so it roots. It pictures permanence and growth, the opposite of being uprooted. It echoes Exodus 15:17: 'you will plant them on the mountain of your inheritance.'

Psalm 44:2 וַתִּטָּעֵ֑ם and you planted them

With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

Here: 'And you planted them'. 'Them' switches to Israel's ancestors (the 'fathers' of v.1). The farming picture shows God as the gardener and the land as his plot, with Israel set into the ground to take root and stay.

Psalm 80:8 וַתִּטָּעֶֽהָ׃ and you planted it

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Here: 'And you planted it', where 'it' (feminine) points back to the vine. This closes the verse's arc: pulled up from Egypt, set down in Canaan. It echoes the old promise that God would 'plant' his people in his land (Exod 15:17; 2 Sam 7:10).

Psalm 80:15 נָטְעָ֣ה it planted

the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

Here: 'Planted', describing a finished act. It looks back to verse 8, where God brought the vine out of Egypt and planted it in the land. The verb is feminine because its subject, 'right hand', is a feminine noun in Hebrew.

Psalm 94:9 הֲנֹ֣טַֽע ¿ [the] planter of

He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

Here: The question marker ha- attached to a participle used as a title: 'the Planter of'. The verb is a farming word, used for setting trees and vines in the ground. Here God 'planted' the ear in the head the way a farmer sets a shoot in soil: deliberately, carefully, so it stays put and works.

Psalm 104:16 נָטָֽע׃ he planted

The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

Psalm 107:37 וַיִּטְּע֣וּ and they planted

They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

Proverbs 31:16 נָ֣טְעָה she plants

She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

Here: She plants, or has planted. It is a long-term act of establishing something. In practice this probably means she sees to it and pays for it, with the labour of her household (v.15).

Ecclesiastes 2:4 נָטַ֥עְתִּי I planted

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

Here: 'I planted'. The verb comes back in 2:5 ('I planted in them every fruit tree'), which echoes God planting the garden in Genesis 2:8–9.

Ecclesiastes 2:5 וְנָטַ֥עְתִּי and I planted

I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 לָטַ֔עַת נָטֽוּעַ׃ to plant, [what] is planted

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

Here: Planting, usually of trees, vines or orchards rather than sowing grain. It echoes Qohelet's own boast of planting vineyards and orchards (2:4–5), and Jeremiah's picture of God 'planting' a nation.

Ecclesiastes 12:11 נְטוּעִ֖ים firmly fixed

The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.

Here: Literally 'planted', the ordinary verb for setting a tree in the ground, used here for nails driven deep so they cannot be pulled out. The farm picture continues, and the sayings are rooted as well as sharp.

Isaiah 5:2 וַיִּטָּעֵ֙הוּ֙ and he planted it

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

Here: "And he planted it." It is an ordinary farming word, but Israel's poets and prophets also use it for God planting his people in the land (Exod 15:17; Ps 80:8).

Isaiah 17:10 תִּטְּעִי֙ you plant

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Here: 'You (fem.) plant'. This imperfect verb can mean 'you keep planting', 'you plant' or 'you will plant'. It describes ongoing, energetic activity.

Isaiah 37:30 וְנִטְע֥וּ and plant

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Here: Planting is a long-term investment. A vine takes years to bear, so planting one assumes years of peace ahead.

Isaiah 40:24 נִטָּ֗עוּ they have been planted

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Here: 'They have been planted.' The verb is passive: the rulers did not plant themselves. Someone set them in place, and in this chapter that someone is God.

Isaiah 44:14 נָטַ֥ע he plants

He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

Isaiah 51:16 לִנְטֹ֤עַ to plant

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

Here: 'To plant': a farming and building image, as in setting a tree or tent-peg firmly in the ground. Its use for the heavens is unusual, which is why many scholars suspect the reading was originally 'to stretch out' (see textual notes).

Isaiah 65:21 וְנָטְע֣וּ and they will plant

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Here: To plant something meant to stay in the ground, like trees or vines, not to sow seed for one season. Planting a vineyard was a bet on many years of peace.

Isaiah 65:22 יִטְּע֖וּ they will plant

No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.

Here: "They will plant." Verse 21 says vineyards. A vineyard takes years before it yields, so planting one is a wager on a secure future.

Jeremiah 1:10 וְלִנְטֽוֹעַ׃ פ and to plant

See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

Here: Planting a vine or tree, a familiar picture of God settling his people securely in the land (Exod 15:17; 2 Sam 7:10; Jer 2:21). It answers 'uproot' and is the last word of the commission.

Jeremiah 2:21 נְטַעְתִּ֣יךְ I had planted you

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Here: 'I planted you.' The verb describes something finished: the planting is done and settled. 'You' is feminine, so the speaker is still addressing Israel/Jerusalem as the woman of verses 2 and 20. It recalls God planting his people in the land (Exod 15:17; Ps 80:8).

Jeremiah 11:17 הַנּוֹטֵ֣עַ who planted

The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

Here: A participle with 'the', so it works almost as a title: 'the Planter of you'. It carries on the tree image of v.16. The one who planted Israel in the land has the right to uproot it.

Jeremiah 12:2 נְטַעְתָּם֙ you have planted them

You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

Here: 'You planted them': a completed act, with God as the subject. Jeremiah puts the wicked's success down to God himself. It is the same verb God used in Jeremiah's call (1:10, 'to build and to plant'), and for Judah as the olive tree 'the LORD planted' (11:16–17).

Jeremiah 18:9 וְלִנְטֹֽעַ׃ and to plant

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Here: 'And to plant' means to root a people in its land so that it grows and bears fruit. It is the opposite of 'uproot' in verse 7. It completes Jeremiah's signature pair of verbs for restoration.

Jeremiah 24:6 וּנְטַעְתִּ֖ים and I will plant them

I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

Here: The people are now a planting (a vine or orchard) set into the soil of the land, a familiar picture of Israel as God's vineyard and of secure settlement (2 Sam 7:10; Ps 80:8).

Jeremiah 29:5 וְנִטְע֣וּ and plant

“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

Here: Used especially of trees and vines, things that are planted for years ahead. The second half of the "build and plant" pair from Jeremiah's call (1:10; also 24:6; 31:28).

Jeremiah 29:28 וְנִטְע֣וּ and plant

For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”

Jeremiah 31:5 תִּטְּעִ֣י נָטְע֥וּ נֹטְעִ֖ים you will plant, they will plant, planters

Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

Jeremiah 31:28 וְלִנְט֖וֹעַ and to plant

Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

Here: To plant vines and trees, the opposite of 'uproot.' Israel planted in its land is a familiar biblical picture of a secure, settled people.

Jeremiah 32:41 וּנְטַעְתִּ֞ים and I will plant them

Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

Here: "And I will plant them." An image from farming: setting a seedling or vine into the ground so it can take root and stay. It echoes God's words when he called Jeremiah, "to uproot… to build and to plant" (1:10), and it is the reverse of exile, which is pictured as being uprooted.

Jeremiah 35:7 תִטָּ֔עוּ you must plant

Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’

Here: To plant trees or vines, as distinct from sowing seed. Together with 'build', it forms a common biblical pairing for settling down (compare Jeremiah 1:10; 29:5).

Jeremiah 42:10 וְנָטַעְתִּ֥י and I will plant

‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

Here: 'And I will plant.' The image switches from builder to gardener. God will root the people firmly in the soil so that they grow and last.

Jeremiah 45:4 נָטַ֖עְתִּי I have planted

Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

Here: 'I planted'. Israel is pictured as God's vine or orchard, set into its land by him (Exodus 15:17; Jeremiah 2:21).

Ezekiel 28:26 וְנָטְע֣וּ and they will plant

And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”

Here: 'And they will plant': putting in long-term crops. You only plant when you expect to be there for the harvest years from now.

Ezekiel 36:36 נָטַ֖עְתִּי I have planted

Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

Here: "I have planted." There is no "and" before it, so the two claims come back to back. Planting vines, orchards and crops brings land back into use. The Hebrew says "planted"; the "re-" in English is implied.

Daniel 11:45 וְיִטַּע֙ so he may pitch

He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain, but he will meet his end with no one to help him.

Here: The ordinary word for planting a tree or vine, used here for driving tent pegs into the ground. It pictures a camp set up to stay, not a passing halt. The verb continues the run of future statements from verse 44 ('and he will go out… and he will pitch…'); it simply means 'and he will pitch', not 'so that he may'.

Amos 5:11 נְטַעְתֶּ֔ם you have planted

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Here: 'You have planted': like 'you have built', a completed investment that is waiting to pay off.

Amos 9:14 וְנָטְע֣וּ and they will plant

I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

Here: They plant vines, a long-term act. In the next verse God uses the same verb of himself: "I will plant them on their land" (9:15).

Amos 9:15 וּנְטַעְתִּ֖ים and I will plant them

I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

Here: The verb used for setting a tree or vine into the ground so it can take root. Its form ("and" + a perfect verb) carries the future forward from v.14: this is the next step in what God will do. Israel, who has just been pictured planting vineyards (v.14), is now itself the plant, and God is the farmer.

Zephaniah 1:13 וְנָטְע֣וּ and they will plant

Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

Here: Planting a vineyard is a long-term investment, because vines take several years to bear well. It is the act of someone who expects to stay on the land.