Word

נָדֻד

nâdud · H5076 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. tossing

    Action by which humans move from side to side or back and forth

    Examples

    Job 7:4 “When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until dawn.

How it’s used In 1 role

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What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
נוּעַ nûwaʻ · H5128 · to move, to sway, to shake
Hebrew verb denoting restless, unsteady movement or shaking; semantically overlaps with נָדֻד in describing motion that is unstable or back-and-forth, though נוּעַ emphasizes the tottering/shaking aspect while נָדֻד emphasizes the tossing
Contrasting words 2 words
נוּחַ nûwach · H5117 · to wait, to pause, to rest
Hebrew verb meaning to come to rest or settle; lexical opposite of נָדֻד (tossing to and fro) in that נוּחַ denotes cessation of movement and settling into a stable position, contrasting with the restless tossing motion of נָדֻד
שָׁקַט shâqaṭ · H8252 · to be quiet, to be still
Hebrew verb meaning to be at rest or undisturbed; antonym of נָדֻד in that שָׁקַט describes a state of calm stability, the opposite of being tossed to and fro
In the other Testament 2 words
κλυδωνίζομαι klydōnízomai · G2831 · to be tossed about by waves
Greek verb describing the state of being tossed about or agitated, particularly by waves; corresponds closely to the Hebrew noun נָדֻד which denotes the action/state of tossing to and fro
σαλεύω saleúō · G4531 · to shake, to stir up against, to start a riot
Greek verb for shaking or tossing motion that can capture the sense of restless movement implied by נָדֻד
Semantic domains 1 entry
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נָדֻד denotes tossing to and fro, its sole occurrence at Nahum 2:7 describing maidservants moaning and beating their breasts (or, in some renderings, the restless movement of doves), tying the word to agitated back-and-forth motion.
Word family 5 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5076. nadud or nedud [נְדוּד] noun [masculine] tossing of sleeplessness, only plural…
H5076. nadud
or nedud [נְדוּד] noun [masculine] tossing of sleeplessness, only plural נְדֻדִים Job 7:4 I am sated with tossings.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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