na.tash describes leaving people, commitments, places, or things behind, whether by abandonment, release, or being left exposed.

The verb most often marks abandoning or withdrawing from persons, a people, an inheritance, a dwelling, or instruction. It also describes leaving tangible things or land in place, while passive forms portray things, places, or people as left, spread out, or exposed.

1. Abandoning a person, people, or commitment · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 12:22 and Psalm 94:14, the Qal imperfect states that the LORD will not forsake his people or inheritance. In Deuteronomy 32:15, the sequential imperfect describes Jeshurun's turning away from the God who made him, while Proverbs 1:8 uses a Qal jussive to warn a son not to forsake his mother's instruction.

   1 Samuel 12:22Psalm 94:14Deuteronomy 32:15Proverbs 1:8Jeremiah 12:7Isaiah 2:6
2. Leaving something in place or giving it up · common

   In Exodus 23:11, the Qal sequential perfect occurs in the instruction to let the land lie fallow and abandon it in the seventh year. The APB renders the clause in 1 Samuel 17:20 as David having "left the flock with a keeper," and in Numbers 11:31 it says the quail were left upon the camp.

   Exodus 23:111 Samuel 17:201 Samuel 17:221 Samuel 17:28Numbers 11:31Proverbs 17:14
3. Being left or spread out · occasional

   Niphal sequential imperfect forms in 2 Samuel 5:18 and Judges 15:9 occur where the Philistines deploy or spread out in a location. Passive forms in Amos 5:2 and Isaiah 32:14 portray Israel or a city stronghold as left, and Isaiah 33:23 describes cords as left loose.

   2 Samuel 5:18Judges 15:9Amos 5:2Isaiah 32:14Isaiah 33:23Isaiah 16:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses "leave," "forsake," "abandon," and "rejected" in verses containing this lemma, and it also depicts things as "left" or "spread out." These renderings confirm the clauses' broad contexts rather than supplying separate definitions.