Word

נָוֶה

nâveh · H5116 · Hebrew · 34 occurrences

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Meanings

dweller

Literally: dweller; hence: a person who dwells in a certain place

Examples
Job 5:24 “You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your home and have nothing missing.
habitation, abode, haunt

A location that deities, humans or animals have made their dwelling place

Examples
Exodus 15:13 “In Your faithfulness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.
2 Samuel 15:25 And the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the sight of the LORD, then He will bring me back and show me both it and His habitation.
Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the home of the righteous.
pasture

Open land with enough grass and plants to graze cattle or flocks of sheep and goats

Examples
2 Samuel 7:8 “Now then, this is what you shall say to My servant David: ‘This is what the LORD of armies says: “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:7 “Now, therefore, this is what you shall say to My servant David: ‘This is what the LORD of armies says: “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel.
Job 5:24 “You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your home and have nothing missing.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

25 occurrences in 15 groups

הוּhis 7
Other words · 14 groups that occur once or twice (18) 18

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 5 groups

אֵיתָןpermanent 2
טוֹבgood 1
עָזַבto forsake, to leave 1
שַׁאֲנָןat ease 1
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 5 groups

הַרmountain 1
יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 1
רֵבֶץresting place 1
בָּדָדalone 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 2

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 6 groups

שָׁמֵםto be desolate, to be appalled 4
בָרַךְto bless 1
הָיָהto be, to become 1
חָמַלto be concerned for 1
פָּקַדto number, to punish 1
קָבַבto curse 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רָאָהto see 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 2 groups

אוֹצָרtreasure, storehouse, treasury 1
שֶׁמֶןoil 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

17 occurrences in 5 groups

אֵלto, toward 8
בin/on/with 7
עַלon, upon, over, against 6
לto/for 6
מִןfrom 4

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 4 entries

People001001003: The domain classification here reflects the word's use for an inhabited dwelling associated with its human occupant, as when David is described being taken "from the pasture, from following the sheep" to lead the LORD's people (2 Samuel 7:8), tying the term to the person whose dwelling or pastoral setting it names.
Space002002001017: נָוֶה denotes a dwelling place or habitation, as in the LORD's "holy habitation" to which He guides His redeemed people (Exodus 15:13) and His "habitation" to which David hopes to be restored (2 Samuel 15:25), tying the word to an inhabited location.
Landscapes001002004: The word also denotes pastureland specifically, as in David being taken "from the pasture" to become Israel's leader (2 Samuel 7:8, 1 Chronicles 17:7), associating the term with open grazing terrain.
Good002001001031: The domain classification here reflects the word's use in descriptions of a place as "pleasant" or comely (a positive, favorable quality of a dwelling or pasture), a nuance attested for this term beyond the plain locational sense sampled in the citations here.

Word family 4 words

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

נָוָה nâvâh · H5115 · to abide, to survive, to endure · 2×נָוֶהnâveh · H5116נוּד nûwd · H5111 · get away · 1×

Also from the root נָוָה

נָאוֶה nâʼveh · H5000 · beautiful, lovely, appropriate · 10×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5116. naveh I. נָוֶה noun masculineIsa 27:10 abode of shepherd, or flocks, in poetry…

H5116. naveh
I. נָוֶה noun masculineIsa 27:10 abode of shepherd, or flocks, in poetry habitation; — absolute Isa 27:10 +; construct נְוֵה Exo 15:13 +; נְוַת Job 8:6 (as if from נָוָה; or read נְוֵה ?); suffix נָָֽוְךָ Job 5:24, נָוֵ֫הוּ 2Sa 15:25 +, נְוֵהֶם Jer 49:20; Eze 34:14 (compare Sta§ 351 c.), נְוֵהֶן Jer 23:3 (so Baer Ginsb; נְוֵיהֶן van d. H., plural according to Köii, 1, p. 77); —
1. a. adode, of sheep 2Sa 7:8 (|| הַצּאֹן מֵאַחַר) = 1Ch 17:1; Isa 65:10 (|| רָבַץ); of people under figure of sheep Jer 23:3; Jer 49:20 = Jer 50:45, Jer 50:19; Eze 34:14 (twice in verse) (|| מִרְעֶה רָבַץ,); of camels Eze 25:5 (|| צאֹן מִרְבַּץ).
b. adode of shepherds Jer 33:12 (+ צאֹן מַרְבִּיצִים).
c. = meadow, in figure of Ephraim planted (שָׁתוּל) as tree Hos 9:13.
2 habitation, usually of country, or of domains in the country (chiefly in poetry), Job 5:3; Job 8:6 (צִדְקֶ֑ךָ נְוַת, see above), Pro 21:20; || אֹהֶל Job 5:24; Job 18:15; || בַּיִת Pro 3:33; || רֵבֶץ Pro 24:15; of ׳י in Canaan 2Sa 15:25; of Can. as place of ׳יs sanctuary, ׳נ קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ Exo 15:13; figurative of ׳י himself, ׳נ צֶדֶק Jer 50:7; habit. of nation Jer 10:25; Jer 25:30; Isa 32:18 (׳נ שָׁלוֺם), Psa 79:7; = city Isa 27:10, especially Jerusalem Isa 33:20 (׳נ שַׁאֲנָן, || אֹהֶל); ׳נ אֵיתָן Jer 49:19 (figurative of Edom) = Jer 50:44 (of Babylonian ); of land of Israel, ׳נ צֶדֶק Jer 31:23 (|| הַקֹּדֶשׁ הַר). Twice of habitation of jackals Isa 34:13; Isa 35:7 (both || חָצִיר).
II. [נָוֶה] adjective dwelling, abiding; — only (si vera lectio) בַּיִת נְוַת Psa 68:13 she that is adiding at home. — נָוָה Jer 6:2 see נָאוֶה below [נָאָה].

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

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

People1 occurrence Landscapes16 occurrences Good0 occurrences Space17 occurrences

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