נוּעַ nua

Hebrew word for “to shake” · Strong’s H5128 · used 40 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

1) to quiver, totter, shake, reel, stagger, wander, move, sift, make move, wave, waver, tremble;

How it is translated

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

• sway 3
• will shake 3
• shook 3
• wanderer 2
• has shaken 2
• shake 2
• wander 2
• wandered 2
• trembled 1
• made wander 1
• quivering 1
• will i make wander? 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 9 (3), Genesis 4 (2), Psalms 59 (2), Psalms 109 (2), Lamentations 4 (2), Exodus 20 (1), Numbers 32 (1), 1 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Samuel 15 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1)

Forms

• נעו 5
• לנוע 4
• וינעו 3
• ונעו 3
• נע 2
• הניעה 2
• יניעון 2
• ינועו 2
• וינעם 1
• נעות 1

Words used with it

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

• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 6
• שִׁכֹּר shikkor “drunken” 3
• לָעַג laag “to mock” 3
• נוּד nud “to wander” 3
• חָדַל chadal “to cease” 3
• עֵץ ets “tree” 4
• הֶם hem “them” 5
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 3
• שָׁרַק sharaq “to whistle” 2
• יָסַף yasaph “to add” 3
• לֵבָב levav “heart” 3
• תְּאֵנָה teenah “fig” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 4:14 — Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;…
• Exodus 20:18 — And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed,…
• 2 Kings 19:21 — This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of…
• Job 16:4 — I also could speak as ye if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
• Psalms 22:7 — All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
• 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 19:1 — The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the…
• Isaiah 29:9 — Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
• Isaiah 37:22 — This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of…
• Jeremiah 14:10 — Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now…
• Lamentations 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of…
• Zephaniah 2:15 — This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts…

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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.