Strong's Hebrew · H5074
H5074 nâdad
נָדַד
naw-dad'
to wander
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nâdad appears 28 times in Scripture, including Genesis 31:40 and 2 Samuel 23:6. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away
In the King James Version
chase (away), × could not, depart, flee (× apace, away), (re-) move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 28 times in Scripture
“But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.”
“As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.”
“That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.”
“Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.”
“Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.”
“He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.”
“He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.”
“He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.”
“I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.”
“How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
