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# נוּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5106

**hinder** — used 8 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

hinder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5106/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוא: vb. hinder, restrain, frustrate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5106/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hinder, restrain, frustrate (Arabic (نوأ) نَآءَ (or نَاءَ rise with difficulty, rise against one (Frey), iii. contend with, Lane 2861);— Impf. 2 mpl. תנואון Nu 32:7 Kt, but read Hiph. (so Qr), cf. Di. Pf. הֵנִיא Nu 30:6, etc.; Impf. יָנִיא v 9, יָנִי ψ 141:5, תְּנִיאוּן Nu 32:7 Qr;— restrain, forbid (performance of vow), sq. acc. pers. Nu 30:6(×2), 9, 12; frustrate (device of people), subj. י׳, sq. acc. rei, ψ 33:10 (‖ הֵפִיר); refuse 141:5 (text dub. v. Che). restrain, make averse the heart (acc.) Nu 32:7 (sq. מֵעֲבֹר), v 9 (sq. לְבִלְתִּי־בֹא).

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he forbade (3); do (1); he frustrates (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 33:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.33.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.33.10/#tree)

יְֽהוָ֗ה הֵפִ֥יר עֲצַת־גּוֹיִ֑ם הֵ֝נִ֗יא מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת עַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh he.frustrates \[the\].counsel of.nations he.frustrates \[the\].plans of.peoples

*JPS 1917:* The LORD bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

[Numbers 32:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.7/#tree)

וְלָ֣מָּה תְנִיא֔וּן אֶת־לֵ֖ב בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מֵֽעֲבֹר֙ אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥ן לָהֶ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and why? do you.discourage (et) the.heart of.the.people of.Israel from passing.over into the land which he.has.given to them Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And wherefore will ye turn away the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5106.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5106/): 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).