nuph (to sprinkle)

Meaning

To sprinkle(Qal) to besprinkle, sprinkle
To move to and fro, wave(Qal) to move · (Polel) to wave, brandish (in threat) · (Hiphil) to swing, wield, wave · (Hophal) to be waved

How it's translated

and he will wave 8
and you will wave 4
he waved 2
to wave 2
and he waved 2
you will wield 2
you have wielded 1
it was waved 1

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

Where it's used most

Leviticus 10
Numbers 6
Isaiah 6
Exodus 5
Deuteronomy 2
Joshua 1

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Exodus 20:25And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Exodus 29:24And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Exodus 29:26And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.
Exodus 29:27And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
Exodus 35:22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Leviticus 7:30His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.

All 35 verses, by book

Exodus 5: 20:25 29:24 29:26 29:27 35:22
Leviticus 10: 7:30 8:27 8:29 9:21 10:15 14:12 14:24 23:11 23:12 23:20
Numbers 6: 5:25 6:20 8:11 8:13 8:15 8:21
Deuteronomy 2: 23:25 27:5
Joshua 1: 8:31
2 Kings 1: 5:11
Job 1: 31:21
Psalms 1: 68:9
Proverbs 1: 7:17
Isaiah 6: 10:15 10:32 11:15 13:2 19:16 30:28
Zechariah 1: 2:9

Hebrew dictionary

נוּף nuph · to sprinkle

1) to sprinkle 1a) (Qal) to besprinkle, sprinkle

נוּף nuph · to wave

1) to move to and fro, wave 1a) (Qal) to move 1b) (Polel) to wave, brandish (in threat) 1c) (Hiphil) to swing, wield, wave 1c1) to wield 1c2) to wave or shake (the hand) 1c2a) to wave (hand) 1c2b) to shake or brandish against 1c2c) to swing to and fro 1c3) to wave (an offering), offer 1c4) to shed abroad 1d) (Hophal) to be waved

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SPRINKLE, verb transitive

[G., Latin ]

To scatter; to disperse; as a liquid or a dry substance composed of fine separable particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand; to sprinkle paper with iron filings.
To scatter on; to disperse on in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand; to sprinkle paper with iron filings.
To wash; to cleanse; to purify.“Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience” Hebrews 10:22

All definitions and other forms of “sprinkle”

SPRINKLE, verb transitive

To perform the act of scattering a liquid or any fine substance, so that it may fall in small particles.“The priest shall sprinkle of the oil with his fingers” Leviticus 14:16
To rain moderately; as it sprinkles.

SPRINKLE, noun

A small quantity scattered; also, an utensil for sprinkling.

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