Nûwd — H5110

Definition

verb

to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt

1. to shake, waver, wander, move to and fro, flutter, show grief, have compassion on
1. (Qal)
1. to move to and fro, wander (aimlessly), take flight
2. to flutter
3. to waver, wave, shake
4. to show grief
1. to lament, condole, show sympathy
2. (Hiphil)
1. to cause to wander (aimlessly)
2. to make a wagging, wag (with the head)
3. (Hithpolel)
1. to move oneself to and fro, sway, totter
2. to shake oneself
3. to bemoan oneself

Usually translated as

bemoan, remove, vagabond, flee, get, mourn, make to move, take pity, skip for joy, be sorry, wandering, shake, way

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• apallotrióō (G526)
• deiliáō (G1168)
• thrēnéō (G2354)
• kinéō (G2795)
• penthéō (G3996)
• saleúō (G4531)
• stenázō (G4727)

Occurrences

Nûwd occurs 24 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (1), Job (2), Psalms (3), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (11), Nahum (1)

• Genesis 4:12 — When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond (וָנָ֖ד) shalt thou be in the earth.
• Genesis 4:14 — Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond (וָנָד֙) in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
• 1 Kings 14:15 — For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken (יָנ֣וּד) in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
• 2 Kings 21:8 — Neither will I make the feet of Israel move (לְהָנִיד֙) any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
• Job 2:11 — Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn (לָנֽוּד) with him and to comfort him.
• Job 42:11 — Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned (וַיָּנֻ֤דוּ) him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
• Psalms 11:1 — In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee (נ֝֗וּדִי) as a bird to your mountain?
• Psalms 36:11 — Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove (תְּנִדֵֽנִי) me.
• Psalms 69:20 — Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity (לָנ֣וּד), but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Proverbs 26:2 — As the bird by wandering (לָ֭נוּד), as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
• Isaiah 24:20 — The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed (וְהִֽתְנוֹדְדָ֖ה) like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
• Isaiah 51:19 — These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry (יָנ֣וּד) for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
• Jeremiah 4:1 — If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove (תָנֽוּד).
• Jeremiah 15:5 — For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan (יָנ֣וּד) thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
• Jeremiah 16:5 — For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan (תָּנֹ֖ד) them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
• Jeremiah 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag (וְיָנִ֥יד) his head.
• Jeremiah 22:10 — Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan (תָּנֻ֖דוּ) him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
• Jeremiah 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself (מִתְנוֹדֵ֔ד) thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Jeremiah 48:17 — All ye that are about him, bemoan (נֻ֤דוּ) him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
• Jeremiah 48:27 — For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy (תִּתְנוֹדָֽד).
• Jeremiah 49:30 — Flee, get (נֻּ֨דוּ) you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
• Jeremiah 50:3 — For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove (נָ֥דוּ), they shall depart, both man and beast.
• Jeremiah 50:8 — Remove (נֻ֚דוּ) out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
• Nahum 3:7 — And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan (יָנ֣וּד) her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?