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Genesis 2:8

וַ יִּטַּע יְהוָה אֶלֹהִים גַּן בְּ עֵדֶן מִ קֶּדֶם וַ יָּשֶׂם שָׁם אֶת הָ אָדָם אֲשֶׁר יָצָר

And Yahweh elohim is fixing-up64 an enclosure65 in Eden, from the front [east],66 and he is placing there the Red-one whom he has formed.


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Strong’s #5193, natah. To fix, fasten upright. “To set anything upright, so that it is fixed in the ground.” Cf. Gesenius. I.e. to plant. However, it has more to do with striking in place, than planting a seed, i.e “I will plant, I will not pluck up.”

You are not fixing-up [natah] to yourselves an Asherah [pole], the whole of a wood beside the slaughtering-place of Yahweh, your elohim.” Deut. 16:21 literal

Words of the wise-ones are as the Goads, and as nails [or pegs] are those-who-are-fixed-up [natah], owners of collections have been given from he-who-tends one.” Ecc. 12:11 literal