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נָדַח

to thrust

‘to thrust’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

H5080 Strong's Hebrew
nâdach Transliteration
/naw-dakh'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 52 appearances

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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.

At its core, נדח (nâdach) means “to thrust.” Read the stem: it spans 5 stems, including Qal and Niphal. With 51 verses in 15 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Jeremiah (35% of all occurrences). First canonically at Deuteronomy 4:19, it enters the text early. Dig into 51-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
banish
Modern gloss
to thrust
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H5080 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 →

51
distinct verses
The word appears in 51 distinct verses.
15 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
Deuteronomy 4:19
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Deuteronomy 4:19.
Zephaniah 3:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zephaniah 3:19.
#718
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 718 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 51 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 10 · 20%
  • Historical 7 · 14%
  • Wisdom 4 · 8%
  • Prophets 30 · 59%

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 51 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 33 verses · 65%
  • Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 20%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 16%

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: Whither i have driven 6×, Banished 2×, Outcasts 2×
  • American Standard Version: Whither i have driven 5×, Was driven away 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Exiles 4×, I have banished them 4×, Astray 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 3×, Banished 2×, I will drive 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5080 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Whither i have driven” 6×
  • “Banished” 2×
  • “Outcasts” 2×
  • “Was driven away” 2×

Plus 40 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5080 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Whither i have driven” 5×
  • “Was driven away” 3×

Plus 44 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5080 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Exiles” 4×
  • “I have banished them” 4×
  • “Astray” 2×
  • “He had banished them” 2×
  • “I have banished you” 2×
  • “Outcast” 2×
  • “Strays” 2×

Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H5080 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “And” 3×
  • “Banished” 2×
  • “I will drive” 2×
  • “Outcast” 2×

Plus 41 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB

Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 15 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

Qal

Niphal

  • Pf. 3 fs. נִדְּחָה Jb 6:13, etc.; (Impf. יִדַּ֫חוּ Je 23:12 v. דחח); Pt. נִדָּח 2 S 14:14; נִדָּחָה Mi 4:6 + 2 times; נִדַּ֫חַת Ez 34:4, 16, etc. On נִדְחֵי Is 11:12; 56:8; ψ 147:2 v. Ki Köi. 317;— e.g. Job 6:13
  • 1. be impelled: וְנדְּחָה יָדוֹ בַּגַּרְזֶן be impelled with the axe Dt 19:5. e.g. Deuteronomy 19:5
  • 2. be thrust out, banished: of dispersion in exile, sq. שָׁם Je 40:12; 43:5 (‖ שׁוּב); sq. לִפְנֵי 49:5 (‖ קִבֵּץ); cf. also fig. תֻּשִׁיָּה נִדְּחָה מִמֶּנִּי Jb 6:13 is banished from me, i.e. is non-existent; especially Pt. banished one(s), outcast(s), as acc. cogn. c. נָדַח 2 S 14:14; c. קִבֵּץ Mi 4:6; Dt 30:4; Zp 3:19; Ne 1:9; נ׳ יִשִׂרָאֵל, c. אָסַף Is 11:12 (‖ נְפֻצוֹת יְקַבֵּץ); c. קִבֵּץ 56:8; c. כִּנֵּס ψ 147:2; c. הֵשִׁיב 2 S 14:13; Ez 34:4, 16 (both ‖ אֹבֵד); c. בּוֹא Is 27:13 (‖ id.); v. also Is 16:3, 4 Je 49:36; outcast = neglected one, fig. of Zion 30:17 (‖ דֹּרֵשׁ אֵין לָהּ). e.g. Jeremiah 40:12
  • 3. driven away (from herd, i.e.) straying Dt 22:1. e.g. Deuteronomy 22:1
  • 4. thrust away, aside, from י׳ to idolatry Dt 4:19; 30:17 (sq. וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוָה). e.g. Deuteronomy 4:19

Pual

  • Pt. אֲפֵלָה מְנֻדָּח Is 8:22 thrust into darkness. e.g. Isaiah 8:22

Hiphil

  • Pf. וְהִדִּיחַ consec. 2 S 15:14; הִדַּ֫חְתִּי Je 23:3; 29:14, etc.; Impf. sf. וַיַּדַּח 2 Ch 21:11 + 2 K 17:21 Qr; וַיַּדִּ֫יחוּ Dt 13:14, etc.; Imv. sf. הַדִּיחֵ֫מוֹ ψ 5:11; Inf. הַדִּיחַ 62:5, etc.;— e.g. 2 Samuel 15:14
  • 1. thrust, move, impel, fig., obj. רָעָה 2 S 15:14 (sq. עַל־). e.g. 2 Samuel 15:14
  • 2. thrust out, banish, especially of exile, subj. י׳, c. acc. sq. שָׁ֫מָּה Dt 30:1 Je 46:28; 16:15 (‖ הֶעֱלָה); sq. שָׁם Je 8:3; 24:9; 29:18 Dn 9:7 + Ez 4:13 (om. 𝔊 Co); Je 23:3 (‖ קִבֵּץ), v 8 (‖ הֶעֱלָה, הֵבִיא), 29:14 (‖ קִבֵּץ, הֵשִׁיב, so 32:37; also 27:10 (‖ הַרְחִיק), v 15 (‖ אָבַד), cf. 23:2 (Judah under fig. of flock, subj. evil shepherd, ‖ הֵפִיץ), 50:17 (Isr. as sheep, subj. enemies as lions); of driving out priests 2 Ch 13:9; invader Jo 2:20 (sq. אֶל־); wicked ψ 5:11 (‖ הַאֲשִׁימֵם); good man from his eminence ψ 62:5 (sq. מִן). e.g. Deuteronomy 30:1
  • 3. thrust away, aside, from י׳ to idolatry, c. acc., Dt 13:14; sq. מִן־הַדֶּרֶךְ v 6; מֵעַל י׳ v 11; מֵאַחֲרֵי י׳ 2 K 17:21 Qr (Kt v. נדא); cf. 2 Ch 21:11 (‖ הִזְנָה). e.g. Deuteronomy 13:14
  • 4. compel, force, subj. adulteress (by flattery), sq. acc. Pr 7:21 (‖ הִטָּה). e.g. Proverbs 7:21

Hophal

  • Pt. מֻדָּח chased, hunted, צְבִי מ׳ Is 13:14, sim. of fugitive Babylonians. e.g. Isaiah 13:14

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

vb. impel, thrust, banish (especially Dt. Je. and later) (NH id., beguile, Hiph. Niph.; Aramaic נְדַח (rare) = BH; Ethiopic ነድሐ thrust; Arabic نَدَخَ is drive a ship to shore);—

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: a primitive root

Part of speech: Verb TWOT: 1304


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.

נָדַח

  • (b. h.) to slip, move away.
    • 1. (interch. with (interch. with דחה) to be banished, exiled. Y. Snh. X, 29ᶜ top (ref. to Is. XXVII, 13) והנִידָּחִים … זו דור וכ׳ ‘those who were exiles in the land of Egypt’ means the generation of the wilderness. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXLVII, 2 שנִדְּחוּ (or שנִדְחוּ); a. e. e.g. Isaiah 27:13
    • 2. to be made to slip, to be led away (to idolatry); עיר הנִדַּחַת the case of a place whose inhabitants were led astray, the condemned town (Deut. XIII, 13 to 18). Snh. X, 4 אנשי עיר הנ׳ the inhabitants of a condemned city. Tosef. ib. XIV, 1, a. e. עיר הנ׳ לא היתה וכ׳ a case of a condemned city never occurred nor ever will occur. Ib. אין עושין שלש עיירות נִידָּחוֹת וכ׳ three cities dare not be condemned (at a time) in Palestine; Yalk. Deut. 886 מְנוּדָּחוֹת (Pu.); a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 13:13
    • to lead astray. Snh. VII, 10 המַדִּיחַ זה האומר וכ׳ a maddiaḥ (amenable to the law Deut. l. c.) is he who says, let us go and worship &c.; contrad. to מסית; ib. 67ᵃ מַדִּיחֵי עיר הנדחת שנו כאן the seducers of a condemned city are meant here. Ib. נביא שה׳ a prophet that led a town astray. Ib. X, 4 (111ᵇ) הִדִּיחוּהָ נשים if women led a town astray; היו מַדִּיחֶיהָ חוצה לה if the seducers were outsiders; עד שיַדִּיחוּהָ אנשים unless the seducers are men; a. fr.
    • 1. to be led astray. Ib. ה׳ מיעוטה if a minority of the town was led astray. Tosef. ib. XIV, 3 הוּדְּחוּ עמה they were led astray along with the inhabitants; a. e.
    • 2. (interch. with דָּחָה) to be banished. Yalk. Num. 739 הוּדַּחְתִּי מן האהל I have been banished from the Tabernacle.

נְדַח

  • , to cause to slip. Targ. Ps. LXII, 5 (some ed. למנדע, corr. acc.).
    • to be banished. Targ. Job VI, 13 אִתְנַדְּחַת Regia (ed. אתברחת; h. text נִדְּחָה).

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 48 distinct written forms H5080 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
הִדַּחְתִּ֥י/ם Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 29:18 2
לְ/הַדִּֽיחֲ/ךָ֙ Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct Deuteronomy 13:5 2
נִדְּחוּ Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Jeremiah 40:12 2
נִדָּחִ֔ים Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 22:1 2
אַדִּיחֵ֖/ם Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 4:13 1
אַדִּיחֵ֥/ם Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 24:9 1
הִדִּ֑יחוּ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Jeremiah 50:17 1
הִדִּיחֲ/ךָ֛ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 30:1 1
הִדִּיחָ֖/ם Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Jeremiah 16:15 1
הִדַּ֥חְתִּי Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 23:3 1
הִדַּ֧חְתִּי Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 29:14 1
הִדַּחְתִּ֖י/ם Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 23:8 1
הִדַּחְתִּ֣י/ךָ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 46:28 1
הִדַּחְתִּ֣י/ם Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 8:3 1
הִדַּחְתֶּם֙ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 Chronicles 13:9 1
הִדַּחְתָּ֣/ם Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Daniel 9:7 1
הַ/נִּדַּ֣חַת Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 34:16 1
הַ/נִּדַּ֨חַת֙ Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 34:4 1
הַדִּיחִ֤/י Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct Jeremiah 27:15 1
הַדִּיחֵ֑/מוֹ Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 5:10 1
וְ/הִדִּ֤יחַ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Samuel 15:14 1
וְ/הִדַּחְתִּ֥י Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 27:10 1
וְ/הִדַּחְתִּי/ו֮ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Joel 2:20 1
וְ/הַ/נִּדָּחִ֖ים Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Isaiah 27:13 1
וְ/הַ/נִּדָּחָ֖ה Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Micah 4:6 1
וְ/הַ/נִּדָּחָה֙ Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Zephaniah 3:19 1
וְ/נִדְּחָ֨ה Verb, Niphal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Deuteronomy 19:5 1
וְ/נִדַּחְתֶּם֙ Verb, Niphal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 49:5 1
וְ/נִדַּחְתָּ֗ Verb, Niphal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 30:17 1
וְ/נִדַּחְתָּ֛ Verb, Niphal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 4:19 1
וַ/יַּדִּ֛יחוּ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Deuteronomy 13:13 1
וַ/יַּדַּ֖ח Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Chronicles 21:11 1
וַ/יַּדַּ֨ח Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Kings 17:21 1
וַ/תַּדִּח֔וּ/ם Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 23:2 1
יִדַּ֥ח Verb, Niphal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Samuel 14:14 1
לְ/הַדִּיחַ֮ Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct Psalms 62:4 1
לִ/נְדֹּ֤חַ Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct Deuteronomy 20:19 1
מְנֻדָּֽח Verb, Pual, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 8:22 1
מֻדָּ֔ח Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 13:14 1
נִֽדַּחֲ/ךָ֖ Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 30:4 1
נִֽדַּחֲ/כֶ֜ם Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Construct Nehemiah 1:9 1
נִדְּחֵ֥י Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct Jeremiah 49:36 1
נִדְּחָ֥ה Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Job 6:13 1
נִדְּחֽ/וֹ Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 Samuel 14:13 1
נִדָּֽח Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 Samuel 14:14 1
נִדָּחַ֔/י Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct Isaiah 16:4 1
נִדָּחָה֙ Verb, Niphal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Jeremiah 30:17 1
תַּדִּיחֶֽ/נּוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Proverbs 7:21 1

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