נָדַד
nâdad · H5074 · Hebrew · 27 occurrences
Meanings
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to flee
The action by which humans or animals move away in haste from a certain place in order to escape from a situation considered dangerous
ExamplesGenesis 31:40 “This is how I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Isaiah 10:31 Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.
Isaiah 16:2 Then, like fluttering birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the crossing places of the Arnon.
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to stray, to wander
Action by which humans and animals leave their home or move about from place to place without clear destination
ExamplesJob 15:23 “He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.
Proverbs 27:8 Like a bird that wanders from its nest, So is a person who wanders from his home.
Hosea 9:17 My God will reject them Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.
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Action by which animals move their wings (to flap (one's wings))
ExamplesIsaiah 10:14 And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing, opened its beak, or chirped.”
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to drive out, to drive away, to banish, to reject
Causative action by which humans force other humans to leave a certain location
Examples2 Samuel 23:6 “But the worthless, every one of them, are like scattered thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;
Job 18:18 “He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.
Job 20:8 “He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Like a vision of the night he is chased away.
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to stray > to rebel
Action by which humans refuse to be under someone else's rightful authority as someone who strays away from the place where he belongs
ExamplesHosea 7:13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me! I would redeem them, but they have spoken lies against Me.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
22 occurrences in 13 groups
- Not stated: they 4
- Not stated (participle) 4
- Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (15) 15
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כָּנָףwing 1
- וֹhim 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
14 occurrences in 13 groups
- Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יַחַדtogether 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 1
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- קָדַםto meet, to come before 1
- רָחַקto be far 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Move002002001012
- נָדַד denotes fleeing or wandering, as in Job's description of wandering about for food (Job 15:23) and the wicked being driven from light into darkness and chased from the inhabited world (Job 18:18), tying the word to a fleeing or roaming motion.
- Awake002001001005
- The word is also used idiomatically of sleep fleeing from someone's eyes, as in Jacob's account of his sleep fleeing by day and night (Genesis 31:40) and the king's sleeplessness in Esther 6:1, associating the term with the departure of sleep and resulting wakefulness.
- Unwilling002001002031
- The domain classification here reflects the word's use for a resistant or refusing withdrawal (fleeing away from someone or something rather than submitting), a nuance of the fleeing sense reflected in the sampled citations' image of being driven away or chased off.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5074. nadad I. [נָדַד] verb retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter (Late Hebrew…
I. [נָדַד] verb retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic flee, run away; Aramaic hate, abominate, shrink from, Aph`el put to flight, etc.; נְדַד flee ); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular נָָֽדְדָה Isa 10:31; Est 6:1; Est 6:3plural נָָֽדְדוּ Hos 7:13 Hos 7:4t., נָדָ֑דוּ Isa 21:15; Jer 4:25; Imperfect יִדּוֺד Nah 3:7; Nah 3:3feminine singular וַתִּדֹּד Gen 31:40; Gen 31:3masculine plural יִדֹּדוּן Psa 68:13 (twice in verse); Infinitive construct נְדֹד Psa 55:8; Participle נֹדֵד Jer 49:5 +; feminine נוֺדֶ֫דֶת Pro 27:8; plural נֹדְדִים Hos 9:17; —
1 retreat, flee Isa 21:15 from before (מִמְּנֵי) swords; Isa 33:3 at the sound (מִקּוֺל) of tumult; absolute Isa 10:31; Isa 22:3; Psa 68:13 (twice in verse), of birds and beasts Jer 4:25; Jer 9:9 (+ הָלָ֑כוּ); participle= fugitive Isa 16:3; Isa 21:14; of fleeing in horror, disgust, with מִן person Nah 3:7; Psa 31:12.
2 flee, depart, Israel from ׳י (מִןׅ Hos 7:13; of sleep (מֵעֵינַי) Gen 31:40 (E), absolute Est 6:1.
3 wander, stray (homeless, compare נוד), נוֺדֵד עוֺף Isa 16:2 (in simile), so Pro 27:8 (מִן local, in simile), compare Pro 27:8 (מִן local); of scattered Israel Hos 9:17; Jer 49:5; (searching) for food Job 15:23 (wicked man); נְדֹד אַרְתִיק Psa 55:8 I will wander afar.
4 transitive flutter wings (of bird, in figure) Isa 10:14.
Po`el Perfect consecutive וְנֹדַ֔ד זָָֽרְחָה שֶׁמֶשׁ Nah 3:17 the sun hath arisen and it ( the locust swarm) fleeth away.
Hiph`il chase away, Imperfect3masculine plural suffix יְנִדֻּ֑הוּ וּמִתֵּבֵל Job 18:18 (of wicked, || מֵאוֺר יֶהְדְּפֻהוּ).
Hoph`al be chased away, Imperfect3masculine singular כְּחֶזְיוֺן וְיֻדַּד Job 20:8 (of wicked); מֻנָֿד קוֺץ 2Sa 23:6 thorns thrust away (si vera lectio, compare Dr.; Klo Bu HPS ׳ק מִדְבָּר).
Hithpo`el. Imperfect יִתְנוֺדְדוּ Psa 64:9 flee away (in horror, disgust, compare
Qal Nah 3:7; Psa 31:12).
[נְדַד] verb flee (see Biblical Hebrew I. נדד); —
Pe`al Perfect3feminine singular עֲלוֺהִי נַדַּת שִׁנְּתֵהּ (K§ 46, Beisp. a)) Dan 6:19.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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