5095. nahal
Lexical Summary
nahal: to lead or guide to a watering place, bring to a place of rest, refresh
Original Word: נָהַל
Transliteration: nahal
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-hal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to lead or guide to a watering place, bring to a place of rest, refresh
Meaning: to lead or guide to a watering place, bring to a place of rest, refresh
Strong's Concordance
carry, feed, guide, lead gently, on

A primitive root; properly, to run with a sparkle, i.e. Flow; hence (transitively), to conduct, and (by inference) to protect, sustain -- carry, feed, guide, lead (gently, on).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5095. nahal

[נָהַל‎] verb Pi`el lead, guide to a watering-place or station, and cause to rest there; bring to a station or place of rest; lead, guide; refresh (compare Arabic watering-place, take a first drink; likewise (Dozy) station, stage of the road; perhaps also Assyrian Nâlu, lie down DlHWB 438; DlHA 5f.; Prol. 17 ff. tries to explain all the passages from this Assyrian nâlu; against him see PräLOPh i. 195 CheAcad., April 12, 1884 DHMZKF i. 357 f.ZMG xi. 1886, 728; two √ √ proposed by RDWilsonPresb. Rev. (N.Y.), April, 1885 (careful article), compare T. ChePsalm 23:2. critical note.); —

Pi`el Perfect2masculine singular נֵהַלָתָּExodus 15:13; Imperfect3masculine singular יְנַהֵלIsaiah 40:11; suffix יְנַהֲלֵנִיPsalm 23:2, יְנַהְלֵםIsaiah 49:10; וַיְנַהֲלֵםGenesis 47:17; 2 Chronicles 32:22; 2 masculine singular suffix תְּנַהֲלֵנִיPsalm 31:4; 3masculine plural suffix וַיְנַהֲלוּם2 Chronicles 28:15; Participle מְנַהֵלIsaiah 51:18; —

1 lead to watering-place (or station), and cause to rest there, subject ׳י‎ as shepherd, Isaiah 49:10 (עַלֿ‎ location; "" נהג‎), Psalm 23:2 (with עַלֿ‎ location; "" הִרְבִּיץ‎), Isaiah 40:11 ("" קִבֵּץ רעה,‎).

2 lead or bring to a station, a goal, ׳י‎ subject Exodus 15:13 (song; no object expressed, אֶלֿ‎ location; "" נחה‎); human subject 2 Chronicles 28:15 and they conducted all the feeble of them by means of (ב‎) asses ("" הֵבִיא‎).

3 lead, guide: figurative, לָהּ מְנַהֵל אֵיןIsaiah 51:18 there is no one to be a guide for her, i.e. for Jerusalem, drunk with cup of ׳י‎s fury ("" בְּיָדָהּ מַחֲזִיק‎); ׳י‎ subject Psalm 31:4 lead me ("" תַּנְחֵנִי‎). 4. give rest to (?) ׳וַיְנ מִסָּבִיב2 Chronicles 32:22 and he gave them rest on every hand, compare ᵑ9 ᵐ5‎ (= מִסּ לָהֶם ׳וַיָּנִח‎ 1 Chronicles 2, 18 +, probably so read here, see Be DHM Öttli).

5 refresh with food, בַּלֶּחֶם ׳וַיְנGenesis 47:17 (J).

Hithpa`el Imperfect probably journey by stations, stages, only 1 singular אֶתְנַהֲלָהGenesis 33:14 (J), I will proceed, journey on, by stages (i.e. deliberately with family and cattle).

נַהֲלָל‎ see II. נַהֲלֹל‎. below








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