What is the Strong's number for Nathan?

The Strong's number for Nathan (נָתַן) is H5414. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Nathan (Strong’s H5414): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Nathan mean?

Nathan (נָתַן, Strong's H5414) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.). The King James Bible translates it as add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.

Nathan (נָתַן) is the Hebrew word numbered H5414 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign.

נָתַן

nâthan · Hebrew

Strong’s H5414 · naw-than'

Original wordנָתַן
Transliterationnâthan
Pronunciationnaw-than'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH5414
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Nathan appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nathan (H5414) stands behind 2,007 English renderings in 1,814 verses across 38 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (207), Deuteronomy (176), Genesis (150).

How the King James Bible renders Nathan, by count

give468 of 2,007 (23 percent)
gave251 of 2,007 (13 percent)
given249 of 2,007 (12 percent)
put186 of 2,007 (9 percent)
set99 of 2,007 (5 percent)
delivered96 of 2,007 (5 percent)

Three places to read Nathan

Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Nathan in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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