Word

נָהַג

nâhag · H5090 · Hebrew · 31 occurrences

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Meanings

to lead, to guide, to drive

Causative action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans or animals to journey from one place to the other, whether with force or not

Examples
Genesis 31:18 and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he possessed which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
Genesis 31:26 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
driving

Causative action by which humans cause a vehicle pulled by animals to move forward and steer it in the right direction

Examples
Exodus 14:25 He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians each said, “Let me flee from Israel, for the LORD is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”
2 Samuel 6:3 They had mounted the ark of God on a new cart and moved it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were leading the new cart.
2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman reported, “He came up to them, but he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
to cause to blow

Literally: to drive; hence: causative action by which deities cause a wind to blow

Examples
Exodus 10:13 So Moses reached out with his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Psalm 78:26 He made the east wind blow in the sky And by His power He directed the south wind.
to guide

Literally: to drive; hence: causative process by which one's thoughts and decisions are directed by one's wisdom

Examples
Ecclesiastes 2:3 I explored with my mind how to refresh my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely; and how to seize foolishness, until I could see what good there is for the sons of mankind to do under heaven for the few years of their lives.
to moan

Action by which humans make a high-pitched inarticulate sound, caused by pain, grief, or severe suffering, sounding like a dove

Examples
Nahum 2:7 It is set: She is stripped, she is led away, And her slave women are sobbing like the sound of doves, Beating their breasts.

How it’s used In 6 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

31 occurrences in 15 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 9
Not stated: they 4
יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 3
Not stated: you (one person) 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

21 occurrences in 18 groups

Other words · 18 groups that occur once or twice (22) 22

Second objectAs in “call him Lord”

1 occurrences in 3 groups

חָשַׂףto strip off 1
יָחֵףbarefoot 1
עָרוֹםnaked 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

16 occurrences in 17 groups

Other words · 17 groups that occur once or twice (17) 17

With adverbsAdverbs

4 occurrences in 2 groups

כֵּןthus 2
שָׁםthere 2

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רֹעִיshepherd 1

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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In the other Testament 2 words

ἄγω ágō · G71 · to lead, to bring, to carry: Greek ἄγω (ágō, G71) serves as the standard Cross-Linguistic Equivalent of Hebrew נָהַג (nâhag, H5090) in LXX contexts where the Hebrew denotes leading, driving, or bringing persons or animals from one place to another, capturing the core motion-causation sense shared by both verbs across their respective languages.
ἀπάγω apágō · G520 · to lead off, to lead away, to take away: Greek ἀπάγω specifically emphasizes the 'lead away' or 'take away' directional sense of Hebrew נָהַג's broader semantic range that includes driving, leading, and conducting in various directions.

Semantic domains 4 entries

Move002002001012: נָהַג denotes driving or leading something in motion, as when Jacob drives away his livestock (Genesis 31:18) and Moses leads his father-in-law's flock to Horeb (Exodus 3:1), tying the word to directing the movement of animals or people.
Blow002002001002: The domain classification here reflects the word's use of the LORD driving the locusts by means of a wind (Exodus 10:13), where the driving is accomplished through the agency of wind, an association the word carries in that specific context.
Control002003002007: The word also carries the sense of leading with directive authority, as a guide or shepherd leads a flock, or one party controls the movement of another (as the Egyptians driven with difficulty in Exodus 14:25), tying the term to exercising directive control over another's movement.
Sounds002004001009007: The domain classification here reflects an attested use of the word for a moaning or driving sound (paralleling later poetic uses of driving imagery with an accompanying groan or lament), a sense not directly among the citations sampled here.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָהַגnâhag · H5090מִנְהָג minhâg · H4491 · driving · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5090. nahag I. נָהַג verb drive, conduct (Late Hebrew conduct oneself, behave, be…

H5090. nahag
I. נָהַג verb drive, conduct (Late Hebrew conduct oneself, behave, be accustomed; Arabic go along the road, keep to the road; Aramaic נְהַג lead); —
Qal Perfect ׳נ Lam 3:2; נָָֽהֲגוּ 1Sa 30:20; Imperfect יִנְהַג Isa 20:4, etc.; Imperative נְהַג 2Ki 4:24; Participle active נֹהֵג Isa 11:6 Isa 11:2t., etc.; passive נְהוּגִים Isa 60:11; —
1 drive, flocks Exo 3:1; compare (in predict.) Isa 11:6 (followed by בְּ); figurative, object Joseph, Psa 80:2 (simile of flock); hence, object human being, lead on, Son 8:2 (|| אֶלֿ הֵבִיא)); also figurative, subject ׳י, Lam 3:2 (|| הוֺלִיךְ); passive participle of kings led in procession Isa 60:11 compare Di (rather than as captives, Che, as earlier usage; || הֵבִיא); drive away, off, (object מִקְנֶה) Gen 31:18 ( of Jacob, going by stealth); usually as booty (object flocks and herds) 1Sa 23:5, ינהגו יתומים חמור Job 24:3 (unjustly); compare 1Sa 30:2 (twice in verse) (read וַיִּנְהֲגוּ We Dr Kit Bu, compare Th, not HPS q. v. ), 1Sa 30:22 (no object expressed but really captives || הָלַךְ), Isa 20:4; drive an ass for riding 2Ki 4:24 (|| הָלַךְ); a cart (עֲגָלָה) 2Sa 6:3 = 1Ch 13:7 (where ׳בָּע); absolute of driving chariot 2Ki 9:20; lead out an army to battle (late) 1 Chronicles 20:12; 1Ch 25:11.
2 figurative בַּחָכְמָה נֹהֵג וְלִבִּי Ecc 2:3 my heart behaving itself in wisdom (compare Late Hebrew above).
Pi`el Perfect נִהַג Exo 10:3; נִהַ֫גְתָּ Isa 63:14; Imperfect יְנַהֵג Deu 4:27, etc.; —
1 drive away, lead off, followed by accusative, daughters of Laban Gen 31:26 (|| גָּנַב); of ׳י, leading off people into exile, followed by שָׁ֫מָּה Deu 4:27 (|| הֵפִיץ), Deu 28:37 (|| הוֺלִיךְ).
2 lead on, guide, followed by accusative, subject ׳י Psa 78:52 (כַּעֵ֫דֶר || כַּצּאֹן הִסִּיעַ); Isa 49:10 (|| נִהֵל, compare Psa 23:2); Isa 63:14; Isa 48:15; guide on, a wind, Exo 10:13 (followed by בָּאָרֶץ), Psa 78:26; (|| הִסִּיעַ).
3 cause to drive (compare
Qal, 2Ki 9:20) Exo 14:25 (J E; subject ׳י, see Di)
II. [נָהַג] verb Pi`el moan, lament (Arabic be out of breath, pant, breathe heavily; Aramaic sigh, groan); —
Pi`el Participle feminine plural מְנַהֲגוֺה Nah 2:8 (יוֺנִים כְּקוֺל ).

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

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

Blow2 occurrences Move27 occurrences Control1 occurrence Sounds1 occurrence

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