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Hebrew verb · H5068

נָדַב

nadabnaw-dab'

be willing

17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâdab

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5068is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5068

to impel; hence, to volunteer (as a soldier), to present spontaneously

The King James renders it: offer freely, be (give, make, offer self) willing(-ly).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nadab is rendered "be willing". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 25:2“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

Exodus 25:2יִדְּבֶ֣נּוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's seventeen uses are in 1 Chronicles.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it impelled2
  • to make a contribution2
  • who volunteered2
  • and they made a contribution1
  • ering of freewill offerings1
  • had made a contribution they1
  • I have made a contribution1
  • it will impel him1
  • making a contribution1
  • offered1
  • they had made a contribution1
  • they offered freewill offerings1

and 2 more, 17 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נָדַחnadachto banishUses55
נָדַרnadarto vowUses31
נָדַדnadadto wanderUses28
נָדַףnadaphto driveUses9

The words it stands beside

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בְּהִתְנַדֵּ֖ב1
  • הַמִּתְנַדֵּ֖ב1
  • הַמִּֽתְנַדְּבִ֖ים1
  • הַמִּֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ים1
  • הִתְנַדֵּֽב׃ ס1
  • הִֽתְנַדְּב֖וּ1
  • הִֽתְנַדְּבוּ֙1
  • הִֽתְנַדְּבָ֔ם1
  • הִתְנַדַּ֣בְתִּי1
  • וַיִּֽתְנַדְּבוּ֩1
  • יִדְּבֶ֣נּוּ1
  • לְהִתְנַדֵּ֖ב1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vtcc
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine plural2HTd/Vtrmpa
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVtp3cp
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular2HVtrmsa
  • Hc/Vtw3mp1Hc/Vtw3mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vtrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HVtcc
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVtcc/Sp3mp
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVtp1cs

Exodus

three uses
  • “Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

    Exodus 25:2

    • יִדְּבֶ֣נּוּyidevenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will impel him
  • And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.

    Exodus 35:21

    • נָדְבָ֨הnadevahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it impelled
  • So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

    Exodus 35:29

    • נָדַ֣בnadavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it impelled

Judges

two uses
  • “When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.

    Judges 5:2

    • בְּהִתְנַדֵּ֖בbehitnadevpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when volunteers
  • My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!

    Judges 5:9

    • הַמִּֽתְנַדְּבִ֖יםhamitnadevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those volunteered

1 Chronicles

seven uses
  • for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the LORD today?”

    1 Chronicles 29:5

    • מִתְנַדֵּ֔בmitnadevverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: making a contribution
  • Then the leaders of the households, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king’s work gave willingly.

    1 Chronicles 29:6

    • וַיִּֽתְנַדְּבוּ֩vaiyitnadevuHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they made a contribution
  • And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

    1 Chronicles 29:9

    • הִֽתְנַדְּבָ֔םhitnadevamverb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: had made a contribution they
    • הִֽתְנַדְּב֖וּhitnadevuverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had made a contribution
  • But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

    1 Chronicles 29:14

    • לְהִתְנַדֵּ֖בlehitnadevpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make a contribution
  • I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

    1 Chronicles 29:17

    • הִתְנַדַּ֣בְתִּיhitnadavtiverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have made a contribution
    • לְהִֽתְנַדֶּב־lehitnadev-preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make a contribution

2 Chronicles

one use
  • and next to him, Amasiah son of Zichri, the volunteer for the LORD, and with him 200,000 mighty men of valor.

    2 Chronicles 17:16

    • הַמִּתְנַדֵּ֖בhamitnadevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: who volunteered

Ezra

three uses
  • And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

    Ezra 1:6

    • הִתְנַדֵּֽב׃ סhitnadevverb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: ering of freewill offerings
  • When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

    Ezra 2:68

    • הִֽתְנַדְּבוּ֙hitnadevuverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they offered freewill offerings
  • After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.

    Ezra 3:5

    • מִתְנַדֵּ֥בmitnadevverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: offered

Nehemiah

one use
  • And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

    Nehemiah 11:2

    • הַמִּֽתְנַדְּבִ֔יםhamitnadevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who volunteered

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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