נוּד
to shake
also: waver, wander, flutter, show grief 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘move to and fro’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to wander aimlessly’
- Hithpolel
- The reflexive counterpart of the Polel. Here: ‘move oneself to and fro’
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5110 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 1 distinct verse. 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.
2 Kings
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, נוד (nûwd) means “to shake.” The verb spans 4 stems, from Qal to Hiphil. With 24 verses in 9 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Jeremiah (46% of all occurrences). First canonically at Genesis 4:12, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 24-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5110 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 →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,282
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 24 occurrences in the concordance →
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 24 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 16 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 25%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 8%
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: Bemoan 3×, Remove 2×, Vagabond 2×
- American Standard Version: Bemoan 3×, Flee 2×, Him 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Flee 2×, Wanderer 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Do 2×, Sways 2×, Wander 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5110 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 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 H5110 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 H5110 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 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 H5110 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
10 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 Hophal (the passive of Hiphil) and one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
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 10 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
- 1.
- a. move to and fro, wander aimlessly, as fugitive
- b. flutter
- c. waver, wave, shake
- 2. shew grief (i.e. by shaking or nodding head)
Hiphil
- 1. cause to wander aimlessly, as fugitives
- 2. make a wagging, wag with the head
Hophal
- . and the worthless, like briers made to flutter (tossed away) are they
Hithpo‛lel
- 1. move oneself to and fro, sway, totter
- 2. shake oneself, in excitement
- 3. bemoan oneself
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
נוּד vb. move to and fro, wander, shudder, shew grief
— 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
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.
נוּד
- to move, be unsteady; to escape. Sabb. 63ᵇ נָד; v. וָלָד.
- to be removed. Part. מוּנָד. Yalk. Esth. 1059 (adapted from II Sam. XXIII, 6) נטלו קוץ מ׳ משם they took a chip (of a pillar) removed from there (the palace). e.g. 2 Samuel 23:6
נוּד ²
- 1. to move, be unsteady. Targ. Is. XXIV, 19; a. e.—Part. נָאֵיד, נָיֵיד; f. נָיְידָא; pl. נַיְידִין, נַיְידֵי; נַיְידָן. Targ. I Kings XIV, 15. Targ. I Sam. I, 13.—Erub. 46ᵃ מיא … מֵינַד ניידי the waters in the cloud are constantly in motion. Keth. 15ᵃ הני ניידי these (the caravans) are unsteady, opp. קביעי stationary (v. דדי ch.). Zeb. 73ᵇ דניידי, v. infra.—Ber. 59ᵇ והאי דניידי עינייהו and the reason why their eyes are unsteady. Kidd. 72ᵃ כי הוה … היינו דובא ניידא when he saw a Persian on horseback, he said, this is a restless bear. B. Bath. 25ᵇ הוה ניידא אפדניה his cottage shook; a. e.
- 2. (with ל־) to shake the head, sympathize. Targ. Job II, 11. Ib. XLII, 11 ונַיְדוּ.
- 1. to scare. Targ. O. Lev. XXVI, 6 מָנֵיד (Y. מָנֵיט); a. fr.
- 2. to shake, (with רישא or ברישא) to shake the head; to nod. Targ. Zeph. II, 15. Targ. II Esth. I, 2. Targ. II Kings XIX, 21; a. e.—Snh. 95ᵃ ומניד ברישיה and shook his head (in derision).
- to be chased, scattered. Zeb. 73ᵇ ניכבשינהו דנִינַּיְידוּ Rashi (Ms. M. דניניידן, ed. דניידי; corr. acc.) let us force them to scatter.
נוֹד
- c. (b. h., v. Ges. Thes. s. v. נָאַד) leather bottle, skin. Ges. R. s. 53 (ref. to Ps. LVI, 9) כאותה בעלת נ׳ as (thou didst to) that woman carrying the water bottle (Hagar); Yalk. Ps. 774 נֹאד; Yalk. Gen. 94. Ḥull. 14ᵇ, v. בָּקַע. Lev. R. s. 6 משביעין האדם … אתמול היה הנ׳ הזה וכ׳ they administer an oath to a person by the book of the Law and bring before him blown-up (empty) hides, to intimate, yesterday this hide was filled with sinews and bones and now it is empty, so will he who wantonly causes his neighbor to swear become empty &c. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 6 (ref. to ונֵד Ex. XV, 8) מה נֹד צרור וכ׳ as a tied-up skin stands and neither lets (air) escape nor receives any &c.; Yalk. Ex. 248 נוֹד; a. e.—Pl. נוֹדוֹת. Lev. R. l. c. נ׳ נפיחים, v. supra. Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵇ top נ׳ נפוחות; Lam. R. to II, 2 נ׳ מנופחות blown-up bottles (having the appearance of being filled with water). Ab. Zar. II, 4; a. e. e.g. Psalms 56:9
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 22 distinct written forms H5110 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5110, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 24 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
