נָאַף
nâʼaph · naw-af'
to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize
- to commit adultery
- figuratively, to apostatize
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › strength, the leader › to speak, the word
The seed, life continuing of strength, the leader that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָאַף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
31 occurrences · 31 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that committeth adultery2 · 8%
- thou shalt not commit adultery1 · 4%
- even he that committeth adultery1 · 4%
- the adulterer1 · 4%
- and the adulteress1 · 4%
- neither shalt thou commit adultery1 · 4%
- also of the adulterer1 · 4%
- with adulterers1 · 4%
- but whoso committeth adultery1 · 4%
- of an adulterous1 · 4%
- of the adulterer1 · 4%
- committed adultery1 · 4%
- and committed adultery1 · 4%
- they then committed adultery1 · 4%
- and commit adultery1 · 4%
- from them! for they be all adulterers1 · 4%
- of adulterers1 · 4%
- they commit adultery1 · 4%
- adultery1 · 4%
- thee, as women that break wedlock1 · 4%
- that they have committed adultery1 · 4%
- have they committed adultery1 · 4%
- of adulteresses1 · 4%
- because they are adulteresses1 · 4%
- yet an adulteress1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.