na.tal denotes lifting or taking up, including raising, carrying, or placing something upon someone.

The attested uses show lifting or taking up in scenes of coastlands being raised and people being lifted and carried, with related contexts of something being set before or laid upon a person.

1. Raising and carrying upward · common

   In Isaiah 40:15, the Qal imperfect occurs in the clause that the APB renders “coastlands he lifts like fine dust.” In Isaiah 63:9, the Piel sequential imperfect stands in the clause rendered “he lifted them up and carried them,” joining lifting with sustained carrying.

   Isaiah 40:15Isaiah 63:9
2. Placing or laying upon · common

   In 2 Samuel 24:12, the Qal active participle occurs in the announcement of three choices, though the APB’s wording does not isolate its contribution. In Lamentations 3:28, the Qal perfect occurs where the APB renders that something “is laid upon him.”

   2 Samuel 24:12Lamentations 3:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “lifts,” “lifted them up,” and “carried them” in the Isaiah passages, while it presents the Lamentations context as something “laid upon him.” In 2 Samuel 24:12, its translation of the offered choices does not identify a specific English rendering for the term.