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Hebrew verb · H5074

נָדַד

nadadnaw-dad'

to wander

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

Concordance spelling: nâdad

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5074is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 26
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5074

properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away

The King James renders it: chase (away), [idiom] could not, depart, flee ([idiom] apace, away), (re-) move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).

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

nadad is rendered "to wander". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.

The first use

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:40וַתִּדַּ֥ד

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

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Isaiah.

The other 29 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

  • they flee4
  • they have fled4
  • fluttering2
  • wanders2
  • a fugitive1
  • and he may be chased away1
  • and it fled1
  • and it flees1
  • chased away1
  • fugitive1
  • he will flee1
  • it fled1

and 8 more, 28 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
נָדַבnadabbe willingUses17
נָדַףnadaphto driveUses9

All 28, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

26 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

  • נָדְדָ֖ה2
  • נָדְד֖וּ2
  • וְ֝יֻדַּ֗ד1
  • וְנוֹדַ֔ד1
  • וַתִּדַּ֥ד1
  • יִדֹּד֣וּן1
  • יִדֹּד֑וּן1
  • יִדּ֣וֹד1
  • יְנִדֻּֽהוּ׃1
  • יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ1
  • לַנֹּדֵֽד׃1
  • מֻנָ֖ד1

and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural7HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular6HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun2HVqi3mp/Sn
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqp3fs
  • HC/VHu3ms1HC/VHu3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Vpp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
  • preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HRd/Vqrmsa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3mp/Sp3ms
  • verb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVHsmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms

Genesis

one use
  • As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

    Genesis 31:40

    • וַתִּדַּ֥דvatidadHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it fled

2 Samuel

one use
  • But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

    2 Samuel 23:6

    • מֻנָ֖דmunadverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chased away

Esther

one use
  • That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

    Esther 6:1

    • נָדְדָ֖הnadedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it fled

Job

three uses
  • He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

    Job 15:23

    • נֹ֘דֵ֤דnodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wandering
  • He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

    Job 18:18

    • יְנִדֻּֽהוּ׃yeniduhuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they chase away him
  • He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

    Job 20:8

    • וְ֝יֻדַּ֗דveyudadHC/VHu3mstagged: and he may be chased away

Psalms

five uses
  • Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.

    Psalms 31:11

    • נָדְד֥וּnadeduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they flee
  • How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

    Psalms 55:7

    • נְדֹ֑דnedodverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

    Psalms 64:8

    • יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּyitnodaduverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will shudder
  • “Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.

    Psalms 68:12

    • יִדֹּד֣וּןyidodunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they flee
    • יִדֹּד֑וּןyidodunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they flee

Proverbs

two uses
  • Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

    Proverbs 27:8

    • נוֹדֶ֣דֶתnodedetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: wanders
    • נוֹדֵ֥דnodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wanders

Isaiah

eight uses
  • My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”

    Isaiah 10:14

    • נֹדֵ֣דnodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fluttering
  • Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.

    Isaiah 10:31

    • נָדְדָ֖הnadedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has fled
  • Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

    Isaiah 16:2

    • נוֹדֵ֖דnodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fluttering
  • “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

    Isaiah 16:3

    • נֹדֵ֖דnodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a fugitive
  • Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.

    Isaiah 21:14

    • נֹדֵֽד׃nodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fugitive
  • For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.

    Isaiah 21:15

    • נָדָ֑דוּnadaduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have fled
  • All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

    Isaiah 22:3

    • נָֽדְדוּ־nadedu-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have fled
  • The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

    Isaiah 33:3

    • נָדְד֖וּnadeduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they flee

Jeremiah

three uses
  • I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.

    Jeremiah 4:25

    • נָדָֽדוּ׃nadaduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had fled
  • I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

    Jeremiah 9:10

    • נָדְד֖וּnadeduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have fled
  • Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

    Jeremiah 49:5

    • לַנֹּדֵֽד׃lanodedpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to the fugitive

Hosea

two uses
  • Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

    Hosea 7:13

    • נָדְד֣וּnadeduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have fled
  • My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

    Hosea 9:17

    • נֹדְדִ֖יםnodedimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: wanderers

Nahum

two uses
  • Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

    Nahum 3:7

    • יִדּ֣וֹדyidodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

    Nahum 3:17

    • וְנוֹדַ֔דvenodadconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and it flees

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 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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