וַ/יֵּ֨ט

𐤅/𐤉𐤈

vayet

and he turned aside

a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application; [phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.

H5186

Genesis 38:16 · Word #1

Lexicon H5186

Lemmaנָטָה
Lemma (Paleo)𐤍𐤈𐤄
Transliterationnâṭâh
Strong'sH5186
In-contextand he turned aside

Morphology HC/Vqw3ms All morphology codes

Part of Speech V — Verb — An action or state
Binyan q — Qal — Simple active
Conjugation w — Sequential Imperfect — Imperfect with waw-consecutive, narrating past events
Person 3 — 3rd person — Third person ("he/she/they")
Gender m — Masculine — Masculine
Number s — Singular — Singular

SIBI-P1 H5186-50

and he stretched out

Morphological NotesQal stem, wayyiqtol (waw-consecutive imperfect), 3rd person masculine singular. Narrative past tense formed with prefixed וַ and geminated י.
Rendering RationaleThe verb is Qal wayyiqtol (waw-consecutive imperfect) 3rd masculine singular, indicating a completed past narrative action performed by a single male subject: "and he…". "Stretched out" preserves the root idea of extending or bending something outward, which is the primary concrete sense of נָטָה.

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AI-generated (openai/gpt-5.2-chat-latest)

Words from Root נטה (stretching out, spreading, bending, inclining, turning aside, extending)

SILEX Code Transliteration SIBI-P1
H5186-01 at I have stretched out
H5186-02 ateh I will stretch out
H4294-01 bamateh in the staff

Word Usage (216 occurrences of H5186)

Location Form Transliteration Meaning
Genesis 12:8 וַ/יֵּ֣ט vayet pitched
Genesis 24:14 הַטִּי hati lower
Genesis 26:25 וַ/יֶּט vayet and he pitched