nahag (to lead) · Rightly

Meaning

To drive, lead, guide, conduct(Qal) · (Piel)
(Piel) to moan, lament

How it's translated

leading 3
and he drove 2
and you have led away 1
he drove 1
and he caused to drive it 1
he will drive away 1
he will drive away you 1
and he drove away 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Isaiah 5
1 Samuel 4
Psalms 4
Exodus 3
Genesis 2
Deuteronomy 2

15 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 31:26And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
Exodus 3:1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Exodus 10:13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Exodus 14:25And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

All 31 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 31:18 31:26
Exodus 3: 3:1 10:13 14:25
Deuteronomy 2: 4:27 28:37
1 Samuel 4: 23:5 30:2 30:20 30:22
2 Samuel 1: 6:3
2 Kings 2: 4:24 9:20
1 Chronicles 2: 13:7 20:1
2 Chronicles 1: 25:11
Job 1: 24:3
Psalms 4: 48:14 78:26 78:52 80:1
Ecclesiastes 1: 2:3
Song of Solomon 1: 8:2
Isaiah 5: 11:6 20:4 49:10 60:11 63:14
Lamentations 1: 3:2
Nahum 1: 2:7

Hebrew dictionary

נָהַג nahag · to lead

1) to drive, lead, guide, conduct 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to drive, lead on, drive away, drive off 1a2) to behave itself (fig.) (of heart) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to drive away, lead off 1b2) to lead on, guide, guide on 1b3) to cause to drive

נָהַג nahag · to moan

(Piel) to moan, lament

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “lead” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LEAD, noun

led.

A metal of a dull white color, with a cast of blue.
A plummet or mass of lead used in sounding at sea.
Leads, a flat roof covered with lead

All definitions and other forms of “lead”

LEAD, verb transitive

led. To cover with lead; to fit with lead

LEAD, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive led.

To guide by the hand; as, to lead a child.
To guide or conduct by showing the way; to direct; as, the Israelites were led by a pillar of a cloud by day, and by a pillar of fire by night.
To conduct to any place.“He leadeth me beside the still waters” Psalms 23:2
To conduct, as a chief or commander, implying authority; to direct and govern; as, a general leads his troops to battle and to victory.
To precede; to introduce by going first.
To guide; to show the method of attaining an object.
To draw; to entice; to allure.
To induce; to prevail on; to influence.
To pass; to spend, that is, to draw out; as, to lead a life of gayety, or a solitary life.“That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty” 1 Timothy 2:2

LEAD, verb intransitive

To go before and show the way.“I will lead on softly” Genesis 33:14
To conduct, as a chief or commander.
To draw; to have a tendency to.
To exercise dominion.

LEAD, noun

Precedence; a going before; guidance. Let the general take the lead [A colloquial word in reputable use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.