נוּעַ
nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: continually, fugitive, [idiom] make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to fasten and establish › to see and know
The seed, life continuing that works to fasten and establish that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נוּעַ 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
40 occurrences · 40 OT · 0 NT · 37 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to be promoted3 · 9%
- moved2 · 6%
- up and down2 · 6%
- hath shaken2 · 6%
- let them wander up and down2 · 6%
- and wag2 · 6%
- a fugitive1 · 3%
- and i shall be a fugitive1 · 3%
- it, they removed1 · 3%
- and he made them wander1 · 3%
- move1 · 3%
- against you, and shake1 · 3%
- they are gone away1 · 3%
- they shake1 · 3%
- scatter1 · 3%
- and stagger1 · 3%
- be continually1 · 3%
- vagabonds1 · 3%
- upon me they shaked1 · 3%
- are moveable1 · 3%
- was moved1 · 3%
- are moved1 · 3%
- shall be moved1 · 3%
- shall reel1 · 3%
- to and fro1 · 3%
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.