H5128 נוּעַ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 40 KJV occurrences
נוּעַ
nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
Definition
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
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).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 40)
- Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- Judges 9:11But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- 2 Kings 23:18And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
- Psalms 59:15Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
- Proverbs 5:6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- Isaiah 24:20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
- Lamentations 2:15All 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 beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
- Amos 8:12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.