נָדַף

na.daphto driveHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb9 occurrences5 books8 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to shove asunder, i.e. disperse
Traditional renderings: drive (away, to and fro), thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

9 total
  1. Leviticus 26:36נִדָּ֔ף · of a windblown
    As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
  2. Job 13:25נִדָּ֣ף · a windblown
    Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
  3. Job 32:13יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּ · refute him
    So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
  4. Psalm 1:4תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּ · driven off
    Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
  5. Psalm 68:2כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ף · is blown away; תִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ף · You will drive [them] out
    As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
  6. Proverbs 21:6נִ֝דָּ֗ף · is a vanishing
    Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
  7. Isaiah 19:7נִדַּ֖ף · blow away
    The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
  8. Isaiah 41:2נִדָּ֖ף · to windblown
    Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.