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title: נָדַף — drive · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָדַף (5086), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: drive. BDB 1906: vb. drive, drive asunder. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָדַף

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«נָדַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drive** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 5086 · **BDB:** נָדַף

### Glosses

driven.about (3); \[which.is\].driven.about (1); is.driven.about (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drive [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5086/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. drive, drive asunder [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5086/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drive, drive asunder (NH id., spread, be diffused, disseminated (of odour); Arabic نَدَفَ strike, beat, especially bow-string with mallet, to clean cotton; also play the lyre; Aramaic נְדַף = NH; Ethiopic ነደፈ throw, hurl);— Impf. sf. יִדְּפֶנּוּ Jb 32:13 (juss.); 3 fs. sf. תִּדְּפֶנּוּ ψ 1:4; 2 ms. תִּנְדֹּף ψ 68:3;—drive about, chaff, subj. wind ψ 1:4; wicked, subj. God 68:3 (כְּהִנְדֹּף עָשָׁן, v. infr.); cf. Jb 32:13 (= defeat, anguish). Pf. נִדַּף Is 19:7; Inf. כְּהִנְדֹּף ψ 68:3 (v Köi. 306 f.); Pt. נִדָּף Lv 26:36 + 3 times;—be driven, driven about (especially by wind) ψ 68:3, v. supr. (like a driving \[Che drift\] of smoke); of breath (הֶבֶל) fig. of deceitful gain Pr 21:6 (𝔊 Hi Ew רֹדֵף; v. De Now); of withered plant Is 19:7 (where subj. עָרוֹת, מִזְרָע i.e. place; whence Che trans. נ׳ vanish; but ref. prob. to plant-life in these places, v. Di); of leaf Lv 26:36 (as making slight sound), Jb 13:25 (fig. of sufferer, ‖ קַשׁ יָבֵשׁ), of chaff (קַשׁ) Is 41:2 (sim. of bow of hostile kings ‖ עָפָר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָדַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5086/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 13:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/)

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הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* a leaf? driven.about will.you.terrify and (et) chaff dry will.you.pursue?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

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[Job 32:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.13/)

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פֶּן־תֹּ֣֭אמְרוּ מָצָ֣אנוּ חָכְמָ֑ה אֵ֖ל יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּ לֹא־אִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* lest you.should.say we.have.found wisdom God let him.drive.him.about not a.human

*JPS 1917:* Beware lest ye say: 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man!'

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