נָדַד nadad

Hebrew word for “to wander” · Strong’s H5074 · used 28 times in 26 verses

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Meaning

1) to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter;

How it is translated

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

• have fled 4
• fled 2
• flee 2
• flee ! 2
• fluttering 2
• fugitive 2
• which is chased away 1
• wandering 1
• chase away 1
• may be chased away 1
• surely to flee 1
• will shudder 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Isaiah 10 (2), Isaiah 16 (2), Isaiah 21 (2), Nahum 3 (2), Genesis 31 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), Esther 6 (1), Job 15 (1), Job 18 (1), Job 20 (1)

Forms

• נדדו 7
• נדד 5
• נדדה 2
• ידדון 2
• נודד 2
• ותדד 1
• מנד 1
• ינדהו 1
• וידד 1
• יתנדדו 1

Words used with it

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

• קֵן qen “nest” 3
• לַיְלָה laylah “night” 4
• עוֹף oph “bird” 3
• שֵׁנָה shenah “sleep” 2
• פַּחַד pachad “dread” 2
• מִן־ min “from” 4
• נָדַח nadach “to banish” 2
• מָצָא matsa “to find” 3
• רָאָה raah “to see” 4
• קֶשֶׁת qeshet “bow” 2
• חֹשֶׁךְ choshekh “darkness” 2
• יָדַע yada “to know” 3

Key verses

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

• 2 Samuel 23:6 — But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
• Esther 6:1 — On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
• Job 15:23 — He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
• Job 18:18 — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
• Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
• Psalms 64:8 — So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
• Psalms 68:12 — Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
• Proverbs 27:8 — As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
• Isaiah 16:3 — Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can…
• Hosea 7:13 — Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken…
• Hosea 9:17 — My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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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.