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# נָהַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5095

**lead** — used 10 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

lead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5095/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהַל: vb.Pi. lead, guide to watering-place and cause to rest there; bring to station place of rest; lead, guide; refresh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5095/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Pi. lead, guide to a watering-place or station, and cause to rest there; bring to a station or place of rest; lead, guide; refresh (cf. Arabic مَنْهَلٌ watering-place, نَهَلَ take a first drink; likewise (Dozy) مَنْهَلَةٌ station, stage of the road; perhaps also Assyrian naʾâlu, lie down DlHWB 438; DlHA 5f.;Prol 17 ff. tries to explain all the passages from this Assyrian nâlu; against him v. PräLOPh i. 195 CheAcad., April 12, 1884 DHMZKF i. 357 f. NöZMG xl. 1886, 728; two √ √ proposes by RDWilson Presb. Rev. (N.Y.), April, 1885 (careful art.), cf. Che ψ 23:2, crit. n.);— Pf. 2 ms. נֵהַלְתָּ Ex 15:13; Impf. 3 ms. יְנַהֵל Is 40:11; sf. יְנַהֲלֵנִי ψ 23:2, יְנַהֲלֵם Is 49:10; וַיְנַהֲלֵם Gn 47:17 2 Ch 32:22; 2 ms. sf. תְּנַהֲלֵנִי ψ 31:4; 3 mpl. sf. וַיְנַהֲלוּם 2 Ch 28:15; Pt. מְנַהֵל Is 51:18;— lead to a watering-place (or station), and cause to rest there, subj. י׳ as shepherd, Is 49:10 (עַל־ loc.; ‖ נהג), ψ 23:2 (c. עַל־ loc.; ‖ הִרְבִּיץ), Is 40:11 (‖ רעה, קִבֵּץ). lead or bring to a station, a goal, י׳ subj. Ex 15:13 (song; no obj. expressed, אֶל־ loc.; ‖ נחה); human subj. 2 Ch 28:15 and they conducted all the feeble of them by means of (ב) asses (‖ הֵבִיא). lead, guide: fig., אֵין מְנַהֵל לָהּ Is 51:18 there is no one to be a guide for her, i.e. for Jerus., drunk with cup of י׳’s fury (‖ מַחֲזִיק בְּיָדָהּ); י׳ subj. ψ 31:4 lead me (‖ תַּנְחֵנִי). give rest to (?) וַיְנ׳ מִסָּבִיב 2 Ch 32:22 and he gave them rest on every hand, cf. 𝔊 𝔙 (= וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסּ׳ 1 Ch 22:18 +, prob. so read here, v. Be DHM Öt). refresh with food, וַיְנ׳ בַּלֶּחֶם Gn 47:17 (J). Impf. prob. journey by stations, stages, only 1 s. אֶתְנַהֲלָה Gn 33:14 (J), I will proceed, journey on, by stages (i.e. deliberately, with family and cattle).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 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: he (4); I will journey on (1); \[one who\] leads (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 23:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.23.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.23.2/#tree)

בִּנְא֣וֹת דֶּ֭שֶׁא יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִי עַל־מֵ֖י מְנֻח֣וֹת יְנַהֲלֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* in pastures of.fresh.grass he makes.me.lie.down at waters of.rest(s) he leads.me

*JPS 1917:* He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters.

[Exodus 15:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.13/#tree)

נָחִ֥יתָ בְחַסְדְּךָ֖ עַם־ז֣וּ גָּאָ֑לְתָּ נֵהַ֥לְתָּ בְעָזְּךָ֖ אֶל־נְוֵ֥ה קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃

*Word for word:* you.have.guided in your.covenant loyalty \[the\].people which you.have.redeemed you.have.led.\[them\] by strength your to the.abode your.holiness your

*JPS 1917:* Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5095/): 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).