To wander
נָדַדStrong’s H5074nadad (na-dad)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nadad is the Hebrew word usually translated “flee”, “have fled” and “wanders”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
Meaning
- To retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter(Qal) · (Poal) to flee away, be chased · (Hiphil) to chase away · (Hophal) to be chased away · (Hithpolel) to flee away
How it's translated
- they flee 4
- they have fled 4
- wanders 2
- fluttering 2
- and it fled 1
- chased away 1
- it fled 1
- wandering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Psalms 4
- Job 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Hosea 2
- Nahum 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 23:6But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
- Esther 6:1On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
- Job 15:23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- Psalms 31:11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Hebrew dictionary
נָדַד nadad · to wander
1) to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to retreat, flee 1a2) to flee, depart 1a3) to wander, stray 1a4) to flutter (of birds) 1b) (Poal) to flee away, be chased 1c) (Hiphil) to chase away 1d) (Hophal) to be chased away 1e) (Hithpolel) to flee away Aramaic equivalent: ne.dad (נְדַד "to flee" H5075)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wander” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WANDER, verb intransitive
[G., to wander to walk, to change, exchange or transform.]
- To rove; to ramble here and there without any certain course or object in view; as, to wander over the fields; to wander about the town, or about the country.“They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins” Hebrews 11:37“He wandereth abroad for bread” Job 15:23“He was wandering in the field” Genesis 37:15
- To leave home; to depart; to migrate.“When God caused me to wander from my fathers house--” Genesis 20:13
- To depart from the subject in discussion; as, to wander from the point.
- In a moral sense, to stray; to deviate; to depart from duty or rectitude.“O let me not wander from they commandments” Psalms 119:10
All definitions and other forms of “wander”
- To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; as, the mind wanders.
WANDER, verb transitive
To travel over without a certain course.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.