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Hebrew verb · H5130

נוּף

nuphnoof

to sprinkle; to wave

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

Concordance spelling: nûwph

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5130is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 30
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5130

to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)

The King James renders it: lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.

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

nuph is rendered "to sprinkle; to wave". It stands 37 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to sprinkle".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 20:25Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty different ways.

The first use

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

Exodus 20:25הֵנַ֥פְתָּ

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

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's thirty-seven uses are in Leviticus.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to sprinkle, and to wave.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to sprinkleStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereExodus 20:25Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools…
to waveStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he will wave8
  • and you will wave4
  • and he waved2
  • he waved2
  • to wave2
  • you will wield2
  • about to brandish1
  • and he waved it1
  • and he will brandish1
  • anyone has wielded1
  • as wields1
  • brandishing1

and 11 more, 37 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.

The words it stands beside

All 37, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

30 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

  • וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥4
  • וְהֵנִ֥יף3
  • וְהֵנִיף֩2
  • לְהָנִ֥יף2
  • הוּנַ֖ף1
  • הֵנִ֛יף1
  • הֵנִ֧יף1
  • הֵנִ֥יף1
  • הָנִ֣יפוּ1
  • הֲנִיפ֣וֹתִי1
  • הֲנִֽיפְכֶ֖ם1
  • הֵנַ֥פְתָּ1

and 18 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhq3ms9Hc/Vhq3ms
  • Hc/Vhq2ms4Hc/Vhq2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVhp3ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVhi2ms
  • Hc/Vhw3ms2Hc/Vhw3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular2HVhrmsa
  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhcc/Sp2mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms/Sp3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhp1cs

Exodus

five uses
  • Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

    Exodus 20:25

    • הֵנַ֥פְתָּhenaftaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have wielded
  • Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

    Exodus 29:24

    • וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥vehenaftaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will wave
  • Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.

    Exodus 29:26

    • וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥vehenaftaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will wave
  • Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.

    Exodus 29:27

    • הוּנַ֖ףhunafverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was waved
  • So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.

    Exodus 35:22

    • הֵנִ֛יףhenifverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he waved

Leviticus

eleven uses
  • With his own hands he is to bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.

    Leviticus 7:30

    • לְהָנִ֥יףlehanifpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wave
  • He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a wave offering.

    Leviticus 8:27

    • וַיָּ֧נֶףvaiyanefHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he waved
  • He also took the breast—Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination—and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.

    Leviticus 8:29

    • וַיְנִיפֵ֥הוּvaynifehuHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he waved it
  • but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.

    Leviticus 9:21

    • הֵנִ֧יףhenifverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he waved
  • They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together with the fat portions of the offerings made by fire, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD has commanded.”

    Leviticus 10:15

    • לְהָנִ֥יףlehanifpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wave
  • Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

    Leviticus 14:12

    • וְהֵנִ֥יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave
  • The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

    Leviticus 14:24

    • וְהֵנִ֨יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave
  • And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

    Leviticus 23:11

    • וְהֵנִ֧יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave
    • יְנִיפֶ֖נּוּyenifenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will wave it
  • On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,

    Leviticus 23:12

    • הֲנִֽיפְכֶ֖םhanifkhemverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: wave you
  • The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

    Leviticus 23:20

    • וְהֵנִ֣יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave

Numbers

six uses
  • The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

    Numbers 5:25

    • וְהֵנִ֤יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave
  • The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

    Numbers 6:20

    • וְהֵנִיף֩vehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave
  • Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.

    Numbers 8:11

    • וְהֵנִיף֩vehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave
  • You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as a wave offering.

    Numbers 8:13

    • וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥vehenaftaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will wave
  • After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 8:15

    • וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥vehenaftaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will wave
  • The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.

    Numbers 8:21

    • וַיָּ֨נֶףvaiyanefHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he waved

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

    Deuteronomy 23:25

    • תָנִ֔יףtanifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will wield
  • Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

    Deuteronomy 27:5

    • תָנִ֥יףtanifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will wield

Joshua

one use
  • just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

    Joshua 8:31

    • הֵנִ֥יףhenifverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone has wielded

2 Kings

one use
  • But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.

    2 Kings 5:11

    • וְהֵנִ֥יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will wave

Job

one use
  • if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

    Job 31:21

    • הֲנִיפ֣וֹתִיhanifotiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I brandished

Psalms

one use
  • You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.

    Psalms 68:9

    • תָּנִ֣יףtanifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you spread abroad

Proverbs

one use
  • I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

    Proverbs 7:17

    • נַ֥פְתִּיnaftiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have sprinkled

Isaiah

seven uses
  • Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

    Isaiah 10:15

    • מְנִיפ֔וֹmenifoverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: wields it
    • כְּהָנִ֥יףkehanifpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as wields
  • Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

    Isaiah 10:32

    • יְנֹפֵ֤ףyenofefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shake
  • The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

    Isaiah 11:15

    • וְהֵנִ֥יףvehenifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will brandish
  • Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

    Isaiah 13:2

    • הָנִ֣יפוּhanifuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: wave
  • In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

    Isaiah 19:16

    • מֵנִ֥יףmenifverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: brandishing
  • His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

    Isaiah 30:28

    • לַהֲנָפָ֥הlahanafahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for shaking

Zechariah

one use
  • I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

    Zechariah 2:9

    • מֵנִ֤יףmenifverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to brandish

The letters

Gematria 136· 856 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 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.

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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