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# נָדַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5086

**drive** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

drive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5086/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָדַף: vb. drive, drive asunder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5086/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drive, drive asunder (NH id., spread, be diffused, disseminated (of odour); Arabic نَدَفَ strike, beat, especially bow-string with mallet, to clean cotton; also play the lyre; Aramaic נְדַף = NH; Ethiopic ነደፈ throw, hurl);— Impf. sf. יִדְּפֶנּוּ Jb 32:13 (juss.); 3 fs. sf. תִּדְּפֶנּוּ ψ 1:4; 2 ms. תִּנְדֹּף ψ 68:3;—drive about, chaff, subj. wind ψ 1:4; wicked, subj. God 68:3 (כְּהִנְדֹּף עָשָׁן, v. infr.); cf. Jb 32:13 (= defeat, anguish). Pf. נִדַּף Is 19:7; Inf. כְּהִנְדֹּף ψ 68:3 (v Köi. 306 f.); Pt. נִדָּף Lv 26:36 + 3 times;—be driven, driven about (especially by wind) ψ 68:3, v. supr. (like a driving \[Che drift\] of smoke); of breath (הֶבֶל) fig. of deceitful gain Pr 21:6 (𝔊 Hi Ew רֹדֵף; v. De Now); of withered plant Is 19:7 (where subj. עָרוֹת, מִזְרָע i.e. place; whence Che trans. נ׳ vanish; but ref. prob. to plant-life in these places, v. Di); of leaf Lv 26:36 (as making slight sound), Jb 13:25 (fig. of sufferer, ‖ קַשׁ יָבֵשׁ), of chaff (קַשׁ) Is 41:2 (sim. of bow of hostile kings ‖ עָפָר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: driven about (3); \[which is\] driven about (1); is driven about (1).

## In the verses

[Job 13:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/#tree)

הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* a leaf? driven.about will.you.terrify and (et) chaff dry will.you.pursue?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

[Job 32:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.13/#tree)

פֶּן־תֹּ֣֭אמְרוּ מָצָ֣אנוּ חָכְמָ֑ה אֵ֖ל יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּ לֹא־אִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* lest you.should.say we.have.found wisdom God let him.drive.him.about not a.human

*JPS 1917:* Beware lest ye say: 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man!'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5086.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5086/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).