To banish
נָדַחStrong’s H5080nadach (na-dach)
Appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nadach is the Hebrew word usually translated “banished of”, “have banished them” and “drawn aside”. It appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament.
“O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.”
Meaning
- To impel, thrust, drive away, banish(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Pual) to be thrust into · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be chased, be hunted
How it's translated
- banished of 3
- i have banished them 3
- and you will be drawn aside 2
- to thrust aside you 2
- banished your 2
- i will banish them 2
- they had been driven away 2
- the strayed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 18
- Deuteronomy 10
- Isaiah 7
- 2 Samuel 3
- Psalms 3
- Ezekiel 3
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
- Deuteronomy 13:5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
- Deuteronomy 13:10And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 13:13Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
- Deuteronomy 19:5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
- Deuteronomy 20:19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
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Hebrew dictionary
נָדַח nadach · to banish
1) to impel, thrust, drive away, banish 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to impel 1a2) to thrust away, banish 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be impelled 1b2) to be thrust out, be banished 1b2a) banished, outcast (participle) 1b3) to be driven away 1b4) to be thrust away, thrust aside 1c) (Pual) to be thrust into 1c1) thrust (participle) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to thrust, move, impel 1d2) to thrust out, banish 1d3) to thrust away, thrust aside 1e) (Hophal) to be chased, be hunted 1e1) chased, hunted (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “banish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAN'ISH, verb transitive
- To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the prince or government, either for life or for a limited time.
- To drive away; to compel to depart; as, to banish sorrow.
- To quit one's country voluntarily, and with a view to reside abroad; as, he banished himself.
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.