nud (to wander) · Rightly

Meaning

To shake, waver, wander, move to and fro, flutter, show grief, have compassion on(Qal) · (Hiphil) · (Hithpolel)

How it's translated

take flight 3
and a fugitive 2
to show sympathy 2
will he show sympathy 2
you show sympathy 2
it sways 1
to make wander 1
and they showed sympathy 1

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

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 11
Psalms 3
Genesis 2
Job 2
Isaiah 2
1 Kings 1

9 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 4:14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
1 Kings 14:15For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
2 Kings 21:8Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job 42:11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
Psalms 11:1In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

All 24 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 4:12 4:14
1 Kings 1: 14:15
2 Kings 1: 21:8
Job 2: 2:11 42:11
Psalms 3: 11:1 36:11 69:20
Proverbs 1: 26:2
Isaiah 2: 24:20 51:19
Jeremiah 11: 4:1 15:5 16:5 18:16 22:10 31:18 48:17 48:27 49:30 50:3 50:8
Nahum 1: 3:7

Hebrew dictionary

נוּד nud · to wander

1) to shake, waver, wander, move to and fro, flutter, show grief, have compassion on 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to move to and fro, wander (aimlessly), take flight 1a2) to flutter 1a3) to waver, wave, shake 1a4) to show grief 1a4a) to lament, condole, show sympathy 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to wander (aimlessly) 1b2) to make a wagging, wag (with the head) 1c) (Hithpolel) 1c1) to move oneself to and fro, sway, totter 1c2) to shake oneself 1c3) to bemoan oneself

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.