נוּף
nûwph · noof
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
- to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro)
- used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
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)
- 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 › to fasten and establish › to speak, the word
The seed, life continuing that works to fasten and establish that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נוּף 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
37 occurrences · 37 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall wave4 · 13%
- and wave2 · 7%
- and waved2 · 7%
- for if thou lift up1 · 3%
- and shalt wave1 · 3%
- which is waved1 · 3%
- that offered1 · 3%
- may be waved1 · 3%
- waved1 · 3%
- to wave1 · 3%
- and he shall wave1 · 3%
- when ye wave1 · 3%
- and shall wave1 · 3%
- shall offer1 · 3%
- and offer1 · 3%
- them, and offer1 · 3%
- offered1 · 3%
- but thou shalt not move1 · 3%
- thou shalt not lift up1 · 3%
- over which no man hath lift up1 · 3%
- and strike1 · 3%
- if i have lifted up1 · 3%
- didst send1 · 3%
- i have perfumed1 · 3%
- itself against him that shaketh1 · 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.