נוּחַ nuach

Hebrew word for “to rest” · Strong’s H5117 · used 142 times in 140 verses

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Meaning

1) to rest; 1a) (Qal);

How it is translated

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

• placed 10
• will set down 8
• left 7
• will give rest 7
• rested 6
• leave 5
• will leave 5
• set down 5
• rest 5
• will rest 5
• gave rest 4
• has given rest 4

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 16 (4), 1 Kings 13 (3), Esther 9 (3), Job 3 (3), Isaiah 14 (3), Numbers 11 (2), Numbers 17 (2), Deuteronomy 26 (2), Joshua 1 (2), Joshua 4 (2)

Forms

• הניח 14
• וינח 13
• הניחו 8
• ינוח 7
• יניח 6
• והנחתי 6
• ויניחו 4
• וינחהו 3
• ותנח 3
• ויניחהו 3

Words used with it

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

• סָבִיב saviv “around” 12
• הֶם hem “them” 15
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 11
• שָׁם sham “there” 13
• אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 9
• שָׁקַט shaqat “to quiet” 6
• כֶם khem “you” 10
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 12
• עַד ad “till” 12
• יַרְדֵּן yarden “Jordan” 7
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 9
• אֶחָד echad “one” 9

Key verses

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

• Exodus 32:10 — Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
• Numbers 11:25 — And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass,…
• Esther 3:8 — And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their…
• Psalms 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid they are full of…
• Isaiah 7:2 — And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood…
• Isaiah 11:2 — And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the…
• Isaiah 14:1 — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall…
• Isaiah 25:10 — For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
• Isaiah 65:15 — And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
• Ezekiel 5:13 — Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it…
• Ezekiel 24:13 — In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused…
• Habakkuk 3:16 — When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of…

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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.