נָדַד
nādad
retreat
Strong's H5074VerbHebrewTWOT 1300

נָדַד (nādad) is a Hebrew verb meaning retreat. It appears 28 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5074).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1300)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1300)retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter; chase away; be chased away; flee away; wave, rove, drive away; chase, move, thrust away, wanderer, wandering
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נָדַד verb: retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter

Strong's H5074 נָדַד: properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away
KJV:chase (away), × could not, depart, flee (× apace, away), (re-) move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

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2 Samuel 23:6Esther 6:1Job 15:23

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