נְדַב
to volunteer
‘to volunteer’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Poal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5069 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 7:13 מִתְנַדַּ֣ב Poal ptcp.act ms I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
- Ezra 7:15 הִתְנַדַּ֨בוּ֙ Poal pf 3mp and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
- Ezra 7:16 הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת מִֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ין n c fs cs Poal ptcp.act mp and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
נדב (nᵉdab) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to volunteer.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Debuting at Ezra 7:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5069 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are minded of their own freewill 1×, Freewill offering 1×, Have freely offered 1×
- American Standard Version: Are minded of their own free will 1×, Freewill-offering 1×, Have freely offered 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Freewill offerings 1×, Have freely offered 1×, Volunteers 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Freely give 1×, Freely offers 1×, Freewill offering of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5069 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5069 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5069 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5069 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to volunteer, offer freely
(Ithpael)
- to volunteer
- to give freely, offer freely
Word origin
[ נְדַב ] vb. Hithpa. volunteer, offer freely
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נדב (nâdab) (H5068) — to incite.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָדַב
- (b. h.)
- 1. to make willing, to prompt. Tanḥ. T’rum. 3 (ref. to Ex. XXV, 2) יצא … שאין לבו נוֹדְבוֹ this excludes the insane whom his heart (reason) cannot prompt; (Tanḥ. ed. Bub. ib. 2 שאינו מתנדב בלבו).—2) (denom. of נְדָבָה) to offer willingly, donate, consecrate, contrad. to נָדַר (v. נְדָבָה). Ned. 9ᵇ (ref. to Mish. ib. I, 1) תני נ׳ בנזיר וכ׳ read nadab (in place of nadar), he made a noble vow &c. Ib. 10ᵃ תני נוֹדֵב וכ׳ read nodeb (in place of נודר), he dedicates the sacrifice and fulfills (offers it). e.g. Exodus 25:2
- to be donated, dedicated. Meg. I, 10 כל שהוא נידר ונ׳ whatever sacrifice is dependent on vow or dedication; Zeb. 117ᵃ כל הנדר ונ׳ Ms. M.; Sifré Deut. 65; Tem. 14ᵇ. Ib. נזיר לאו נדר ונ׳ הוא the sacrifices of the Nazarite are not to be classified among the vowed or free-will offerings; a. e.
- to be prompted; to vow a free-will offering; to donate. Tosef. Ned. I, 1 אין הרשעים מִתְנַדְּבִים wicked men do not vow offerings. Ib. מתנדבים נזירות used to vow to be Nazarites. Men. XII, 3 לא ה׳ כדרך המתנדבים he did not make his vow in the ordinary way of vowing people. Ib. 4 מִתְנַדֵּב אדם וכ׳ a man may vow a meal offering of sixty &c. Tanḥ. ed. Bub. l. c. מתנדב בלבו is prompted by his heart, v. supra. Arakh. 6ᵇ עכו"ם שה׳ מנורה וכ׳ if a gentile donated a lamp to a synagogue. Sifra Tsav, Milluim, Par. 1 בשעה שצוה … להִתְנַדֵּב וכ׳ when the Lord of the world ordered free-will donations for the sanctuary; שלא יִתְנַדֵּב אדם גזל וכ׳ that no man must donate what is forced out of him, i.e. no pressure may be used for contributions for a sacred purpose; Yalk. Lev. 515. Snh. 43ᵃ נשים … מִתְנַדְּבוֹת וכ׳ worthy women … volunteered their services and brought them (benumbing drinks for the culprits); a. fr.
נְדַב
- , ch. Pa. נַדֵּב, Ithpa. אִתְנַדֵּב, אִינַּ׳ same, to donate; to be devoted to. Targ. Is. XIII, 2 מְנַדְּבִין ed. Lag. (oth. ed. מִתְנַ׳; h. text נדיבים). Targ. Ps. CX, 3.—Pes. 50ᵃ מתעתרי … ומִתְנַדְּבֵי Israelites will grow rich and offer donations. Arakh. 6ᵇ אינ׳ שרגא וכ׳ donated a lamp &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H5069 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הִתְנַדַּ֨בוּ֙ | Verb, Poal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezra 7:15 | 1 |
| הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezra 7:16 | 1 |
| מִֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ין | Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 7:16 | 1 |
| מִתְנַדַּ֣ב | Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 7:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5069, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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