Nâdad — H5074

Definition

verb

properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away

1. to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter
1. (Qal)
1. to retreat, flee
2. to flee, depart
3. to wander, stray
4. to flutter (of birds)
2. (Poal) to flee away, be chased
3. (Hiphil) to chase away
4. (Hophal) to be chased away
5. (Hithpolel) to flee away

Usually translated as

flee, wander, wandering, chase, could not, depart, move, remove, thrust away

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• aphístēmi (G868)
• bdelýssō (G948)
• diapheúgō (G1309)
• exístēmi (G1839)
• exōthéō (G1856)
• érchomai (G2064)
• eúchomai (G2172)
• katabaínō (G2597)
• pétomai (G4072)
• planḗtēs (G4107)
• ptoéō (G4422)
• tarássō (G5015)
• pheúgō (G5343)

Occurrences

Nâdad occurs 28 times in 26 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), 2 Samuel (1), Esther (1), Job (3), Psalms (4), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (3), Hosea (2), Nahum (2)

• Genesis 31:40 — Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed (וַתִּדַּ֥ד) from mine eyes.
• 2 Samuel 23:6 — But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away (מֻנָ֖ד), because they cannot be taken with hands:
• Esther 6:1 — On that night could not (נָדְדָ֖ה) the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
• Job 15:23 — He wandereth abroad (נֹ֘דֵ֤ד) for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
• Job 18:18 — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased (יְנִדֻּֽהוּ) out of the world.
• Job 20:8 — He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away (וְ֝יֻדַּ֗ד) as a vision of the night.
• Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled (נָדְד֥וּ) from me.
• Psalms 55:7 — Lo, then would I wander (נְדֹ֑ד) far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
• Psalms 64:8 — So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away (יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ).
• Psalms 68:12 — Kings of armies did flee apace (יִדֹּד֣וּן): and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
• Psalms 68:12 — Kings of armies did flee apace (יִדֹּד֑וּן): and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
• Proverbs 27:8 — As a bird that wandereth (נוֹדֶ֣דֶת) from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
• Proverbs 27:8 — As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth (נוֹדֵ֥ד) from his place.
• Isaiah 10:14 — And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved (נֹדֵ֣ד) the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
• Isaiah 10:31 — Madmenah is removed (נָדְדָ֖ה); the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
• Isaiah 16:2 — For it shall be, that, as a wandering (נוֹדֵ֖ד) bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
• Isaiah 16:3 — Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth (נֹדֵ֖ד).
• Isaiah 21:14 — The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled (נֹדֵֽד).
• Isaiah 21:15 — For they fled (נָדָ֑דוּ) from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
• Isaiah 22:3 — All thy rulers are fled (נָֽדְדוּ) together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
• Isaiah 33:3 — At the noise of the tumult the people fled (נָדְד֖וּ); at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
• Jeremiah 4:25 — I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled (נָדָֽדוּ).
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled (נָדְד֖וּ); they are gone.
• Jeremiah 49:5 — Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth (לַנֹּדֵֽד).
• Hosea 7:13 — Woe unto them! for they have fled (נָדְד֣וּ) from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
• Hosea 9:17 — My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers (נֹדְדִ֖ים) among the nations.
• Nahum 3:7 — And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee (יִדּ֣וֹד) from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
• Nahum 3:17 — Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away (וְנוֹדַ֔ד), and their place is not known where they are.