Hebrew verb · H5086
נָדַף
nadaphnaw-daf'
to drive
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâdaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5086is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5086
to shove asunder, i.e. disperse
The King James renders it: drive (away, to and fro), thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro.
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
nadaph is rendered "to drive". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
Leviticus 26:36נִדָּ֔ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- driven about4
- as is driven about1
- it drives about it1
- it will be driven about1
- let him drive about him1
- may you drive about1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּ1
- כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ף1
- נִדַּ֖ף1
- נִדָּ֔ף1
- נִדָּ֣ף1
- נִ֝דָּ֗ף1
- נִדָּ֖ף1
- תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּ1
- תִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ף1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular4HVNrmsa
- preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/VNcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3fs/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp3ms
Leviticus
one use
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- נִדָּ֔ףnidafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: driven about
Job
two uses
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- נִדָּ֣ףnidafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: driven about
So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
- יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּyidefenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let him drive about him
Psalms
three uses
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּtidefenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it drives about it
As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
- כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ףkehindofpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as is driven about
- תִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ףtindofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: may you drive about
Proverbs
one use
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
- נִ֝דָּ֗ףnidafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: driven about
Isaiah
two uses
The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
- נִדַּ֖ףnidafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be driven about
Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
- נִדָּ֖ףnidafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: driven about
The letters
Gematria 134· 854 mispar gadol
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.