נָדַב nadav

Hebrew word for “be willing” · Strong’s H5068 · used 17 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

1) to incite, impel, make willing;

How it is translated

Glosses given for nadav in context, with how often each is used:

• impelled 2
• make a contribution 2
• who volunteered 2
• will impel 1
• when volunteers 1
• those who volunteered 1
• making a contribution 1
• made a contribution 1
• had made a contribution they 1
• had made a contribution 1
• have made a contribution 1
• ering of freewill offerings 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 29 (5), Exodus 35 (2), Judges 5 (2), Exodus 25 (1), 2 Chronicles 17 (1), Ezra 1 (1), Ezra 2 (1), Ezra 3 (1), Nehemiah 11 (1)

Forms

• המתנדבים 2
• מתנדב 2
• התנדבו 2
• להתנדב 2
• ידבנו 1
• נדבה 1
• נדב 1
• בהתנדב 1
• ויתנדבו 1
• התנדבם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with nadav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מְלָאכָה melakhah “work” 4
• לֵב lev “heart” 5
• נְדָבָה nedavah “voluntariness” 2
• בָּרַךְ barakh “to bless” 3
• תְּרוּמָה terumah “contribution” 2
• שִׂמְחָה simchah “joy” 2
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 2
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 2
• מִי mi “who?” 2
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 2
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 2
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 2

Key verses

The verses using nadav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 25:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
• Exodus 35:21 — And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’s offering to the work of the…
• Exodus 35:29 — The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the…
• Judges 5:2 — Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
• Judges 5:9 — My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
• 1 Chronicles 29:5 — The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to…
• 1 Chronicles 29:9 — Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with…
• 1 Chronicles 29:14 — But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given…
• 1 Chronicles 29:17 — I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all…
• Ezra 1:6 — And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all…
• Ezra 2:68 — And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his…
• Ezra 3:5 — And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.