Lexical Summary nadaph: to drive, drive asunder Original Word: נָדַףTransliteration: nadaph Phonetic Spelling: (naw-daf') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to drive, drive asunder Meaning: to shove asunder, disperse Strong's Concordance drive away, to and fro, thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro A primitive root; to shove asunder, i.e. Disperse -- drive (away, to and fro), thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5086. nadaph [נָדַף] verb drive, drive asunder ( Late Hebrew id., spread, be diffused, disseminated (of odour); Arabic strike, beat, especially bow-string with mallet, to clean cotton; also play the lyre; Aramaic נְדַף = Late Hebrew; Ethiopic throw, hurl); — Qal Imperfect suffix יִדְּפֶנּוּ Job 32:13 (jussive); 3 feminine singular suffix תִּדְּפֶנּוּ Psalm 1:4; 2masculine singular תִּנְדֹּף 68:3; — drive about, chaff, subject wind 1:4; wicked, subject God 68:3 (עָשָׁן כְּהִנְדֹּף, see below); compare Job 32:13 (= defeat, anguish). Niph`al Perfect נִדַּף Isaiah 19:7; Infinitive. כְּהִנְדֹּף Psalm 68:3 (see Köi. 306 f); Participle נִדָּף Leviticus 26:36 3t.; — be driven, driven about (especially by wind) Psalm 68:3, see above (like a driving [Che drift] of smoke); of breath (הֶבֶל) figurative of deceitful gain Proverbs 21:6 (ᵐ5 Hi Ew רֹדֵף; see De Now); of withered plant Isaiah 19:7 (where subject מִוְרָע עָרוֺת, i.e. place; whence Che transitive ׳נ vanish; but reference probably to plant-life in these places, see Di); of leaf Leviticus 26:36 (as making slight sound), Job 13:25 (figurative of sufferer, "" יָבֵשׁ קַשׁ), of chaff (קַשׁ) Isaiah 41:2 (simile of bow of hostile kings "" עָפָר). |