--- title: נוּד — move to and fro · The Tanakh dictionary description: נוּד (5110), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: move to and fro. BDB 1906: vb. Hithpoʿlel Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5110.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-2.md)‎ / נוּד‎ # נוּד «נוּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **move to and fro** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 25 times · **Key:** 5110 · **BDB:** נוּד ### Glosses show.sympathy (5); take.flight (3); a.fugitive (2) ### Meaning (OSHB) move to and fro [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5110/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. Hithpoʿlel Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5110/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. move to and fro, wander, flutter, shew grief (NH id. (rare); Aramaic ܢܳܕ נוּד, shake, move to and fro, be disturbed, agitated; Biblical Aramaic flee (v. infr.); Arabic (نود) نَادَ waver, totter);— Pf. 3 ms. נָד, so read for MT נֵד Is 17:11 Ges Hi Ew Di Kit CheHpt RV; 3 pl. נָ֫דוּ Je 50:3; Impf. 3 ms. יָנוּד 1 K 14:15 + 3 times; 2 ms. תָּנוּד Je 4:1, juss. תָּנֹד 16:5; 3 mpl. וַיָּנֻ֫דוּ Jb 42:11; 2 mpl. תָּנֻ֫דוּ Je 22:10; Imv. fs. נ֫וּדִי ψ 11:1 Qr (Kt נודו); mpl. נֻ֫דוּ Je 48:17 + 2 times Je; Inf. לָנוּד Jb 2:11 + 2 times; Pt. נָד Gn 4:12, 14;— move to and fro, wander aimlessly, as fugitive, נָע וָנָד Gn 4:12, 14 (J), Je 4:1 (Gie, as apod., so RV; but Ew Hi Gf Che Ke, as prot., if thou wanderest not \[morally\], and swearest, etc.,—Ew Hi reading with 𝔊 שׁקוציך מִפִּיךָ וּמִפָּנַי לא תנוד; Co del. v 1, 2); take flight (perhaps metaplast. form of נדד q.v.), נֻסוּ נֻּדוּ מְאֹד Je 49:30 (on dagh. v. Ges§ 20 g), of harvest Is 17:11 i.e. be destroyed, in fig. (v. supr.); Je 50:3 (‖ הלך), v 8 (sq. מִתּוֹךְ; ‖ יצא). flutter, of bird Pr 26:2 (‖ עוּף); fig. of soul ψ 11:1. waver, wave, shake, of reed 1 K 14:15 (sim. of smitten Isr.). shew grief (i.e. by shaking or nodding head), usually sq. ל pers.: lament for the dead (Josiah) Je 22:10 (‖ בכה), for Jerus. Je 15:5 (‖ חמל), 16:5 (‖ ספד), Is 51:19; for Nineveh Na 3:7; Moab Je 48:17. condole, shew sympathy with Jb 2:11; 42:11; abs. ψ 69:21. Impf. 3 ms. יָנִיד Je 18:16; 3 fs. sf. תְּנִדֵנִי ψ 36:12; Imv. ms. sf. הֲנִידֵ֑מוֹ ψ 59:12 (so read for MT הורידמו 𝔖 Lag Proph. Chald. xlviii. Dr 2 S 15:20 cf. Checrit. n. Hup-Now Bae Du); Inf. לְהָנִיד 2 K 21:8;— cause to wander aimlessly, as fugitives, c. acc. pers. ψ 36:12; 59:12 (v. supr.), sq. רֶגֶל 2 K 21:8. make a wagging, wag with the head, בְּרֹאשׁ Je 18:16. Pt. כְּקוֹץ מֻנָֿד 2 S 23:6 and the worthless, like briers made to flutter (tossed away) are they (text dub.; Klo Bu HPS read מדבר). Hithpoʿlel Pf. 3 fs. וְהִתְנוֹדֲדָה consec. Is 24:20; Impf. 2 ms. תִּתְנוֹדָ֑ד Je 48:27; Pt. מִתְנוֹדֵד Je 31:18;— move oneself to and fro, sway, totter, Is 24:20 (of earth). shake oneself, in excitement Je 48:27 (perhaps of scorn = wag the head, as Hiph. Je 18:16 cf. Gf RV). bemoan oneself (cf. Qal 2), Je 31:18 (the lament follows in orat. recta). Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «נוּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5110/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Psalms 36:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.36.12/) אַל־תְּ֭בוֹאֵנִי רֶ֣גֶל גַּאֲוָ֑ה וְיַד־רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים אַל־תְּנִדֵֽנִי׃ *Word for word:* not may it.come.to.me \[the\].foot of.pride and.\[the\] hand of.wicked.\[people\] not may it.make.me.wander *JPS 1917:* Let not the foot of pride overtake me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. [Psalms 64:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.9/) וַיַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ עָלֵ֣ימוֹ לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ כָּל־רֹ֥אֵה בָֽם׃ *Word for word:* and they caused.him.to.stumble over them tongue their they.will.shudder every \[one.who\].looks on them *JPS 1917:* So they make their own tongue a stumbling unto themselves; all that see them shake the head. - ← previous: [נוּב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5107.md) - next →: [נוֹד](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5113.md) - ↑ back to [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-2.md)