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title: נָוָה — dwell · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָוָה (5115), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: dwell. BDB 1906: vb.denom. dwell, abide. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָוָה

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«נָוָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dwell** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5115 · **BDB:** נָוָה²

### Glosses

he.stays.at.home (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dwell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5115/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.denom. dwell, abide [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5115/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. dwell, abide (si vera l.);—only Impf. 3 ms. לֹא יִנְוֶה Hb 2:5 he shall not abide, so Ke; Hi rest (cf. Da); We proposes יִרְוֶה be satiated, cf. 𝔖 Krochm יָנוּחַ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָוָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5115/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Habakkuk 2:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.5/)

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וְאַף֙ כִּֽי־הַיַּ֣יִן בּוֹגֵ֔ד גֶּ֥בֶר יָהִ֖יר וְלֹ֣א יִנְוֶ֑ה אֲשֶׁר֩ הִרְחִ֨יב כִּשְׁא֜וֹל נַפְשׁ֗וֹ וְה֤וּא כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ וְלֹ֣א יִשְׂבָּ֔ע וַיֶּאֱסֹ֤ף אֵלָיו֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם וַיִּקְבֹּ֥ץ אֵלָ֖יו כָּל־הָעַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and also (dm) (the) wine \[is\].acting.treacherously a.man proud and.\[who\] not he.stays.at.home who he.has.made.large like Sheol throat his and he \[is\].like (the) death and not he.is.satisfied and he.has.gathered to himself all the nations and he.has.assembled to himself all the peoples

*JPS 1917:* Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer; the haughty man abideth not; he who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

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