STRONGS NUMBER H5189


Word Summary
netishah: a twig, tendril
Original Word: נְטִישָׁה
Transliteration: netishah
Phonetic Spelling: (net-ee-shaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a twig, tendril
Meaning: a twig, tendril
Strong's Concordance
battlement, branch, plant

From natash; a tendril (as an offshoot) -- battlement, branch, plant.

see HEBREW natash

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5189. netishah

[נְטִישָׁה‎] noun feminine twig, tendril of vine (as spreading, compare √ Niph`al 3); — only plural הֵתַז הֵסִיר הַנְּטִישׁוֺתIsaiah 18:5 the tendrils he hath removed, compare נְטִישׁוֺתֶיהָ הָסִירוּJeremiah 5:10 (apparently cited from Isaiah; explanation by FinnJourn. Trans. Vict. Inst. xxii. 306 f. from use by shepherds of poterium spinosum, called nettsh, as defence of sheepfolds), — in both of destroying city (under figure of vineyard); יָם עָ֑בְרוּ נְטִישֹׁתַיִךְ48:32 thy tendrils went over the sea (figurative of prosperity of Moab).

[נִי‎] see נהה‎.