To drive
נָדַףStrong’s H5086nadaph (na-daph)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nadaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “driven about”, “let him drive about him” and “it drives about it”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.”
Meaning
- To drive, drive away, drive asunder(Qal) to drive about · (Niphal) to be driven, be driven about
How it's translated
- driven about 4
- let him drive about him 1
- it drives about it 1
- as is driven about 1
- may you drive about 1
- it will be driven about 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Leviticus 1
- Proverbs 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 32:13Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
- Psalms 1:4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- Psalms 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- Isaiah 19:7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Hebrew dictionary
נָדַף nadaph · to drive
1) to drive, drive away, drive asunder 1a) (Qal) to drive about 1b)(Niphal) to be driven, be driven about
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRIVE, verb transitive
preterit tense Drove, [formerly drave; participle passive Driven, G.]
- To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force.
- To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market.
- To chase; to hunt.
- To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them.
All definitions and other forms of “drive”
- To impel to greater speed.
- To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.
- To force; to compel; in a general sense.
- To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on.
- To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.
- To impel by influence of passion.
- To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.
- To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.
- To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.
- To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.
DRIVE, verb intransitive
- To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.
- To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.
- To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London.
- To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.
- To aim a blow; to strike at with force.
DRIVE, noun
Passage in a carriage.
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.