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# נָוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5115

**dwell** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dwell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5115/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָוָה²: vb.denom. dwell, abide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5115/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. dwell, abide (si vera l.);—only Impf. 3 ms. לֹא יִנְוֶה Hb 2:5 he shall not abide, so Ke; Hi rest (cf. Da); We proposes יִרְוֶה be satiated, cf. 𝔖 Krochm יָנוּחַ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he stays at home (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.5/#tree)

וְאַף֙ כִּֽי־הַיַּ֣יִן בּוֹגֵ֔ד גֶּ֥בֶר יָהִ֖יר וְלֹ֣א יִנְוֶ֑ה אֲשֶׁר֩ הִרְחִ֨יב כִּשְׁא֜וֹל נַפְשׁ֗וֹ וְה֤וּא כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ וְלֹ֣א יִשְׂבָּ֔ע וַיֶּאֱסֹ֤ף אֵלָיו֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם וַיִּקְבֹּ֥ץ אֵלָ֖יו כָּל־הָעַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and also (dm) (the) wine \[is\].acting.treacherously a.man proud and.\[who\] not he.stays.at.home who he.has.made.large like Sheol throat his and he \[is\].like (the) death and not he.is.satisfied and he.has.gathered to himself all the nations and he.has.assembled to himself all the peoples

*JPS 1917:* Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer; the haughty man abideth not; he who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5115.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5115/): 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).