Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
KJV Usage: continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נוּעַ (nu.a) — to shake. 1) to quiver, totter, shake, reel, stagger, wander, move, sift, make move, wave, waver, tremble 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wave, quiver, vibrate, swing, stagger, tremble, be unstable 1a2) to totter, go tottering 1a2a) vagabond (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be tossed about or around 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to toss about 1c2) to shake, cause to totter 1c3) to shake, disturb 1c4) to cause to wander
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מְנַעַנְעִים
Move | verb qal
to move, to sway, to shake = process by which objects move up and down or sideways
JDG 9:9 · JDG 9:11 · JDG 9:13 · 1SA 1:13 · JOB 28:4 · ISA 6:4 · ISA 7:2
Move | verb hif
to move (something), to wag, to shake = causative process by which humans or supernatural beings cause objects to move up and down or sideways
Move | verb qal, verb hif
to stray, to wander = action by which humans move about from place to place without clear destination
GEN 4:12 · GEN 4:14 · PSA 59:16 · PSA 109:10 · PSA 109:10 · LAM 4:14 · LAM 4:15 · AMO 4:8 · AMO 8:12
Move | verb hif
to cause to wander = causative action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans to move about from place to place without clear destination
Sin | verb qal
to err, to go astray literally: to wander; hence: = action by which humans depart from a morally and ethically correct course
Stance | verb hif
to wag, to shake = action by which humans move parts of their body up and down or sideways
2KI 19:21 · JOB 16:4 · PSA 22:8 · PSA 109:25 · ISA 37:22 · LAM 2:15 · ZEP 2:15
Unsteady | verb qal
to tremble literally: to shake; hence: = process by which humans tremble for fear
Unsteady | verb qal | ≈ חגג
to reel, to stagger literally: to sway; hence: = action by which humans move about in an unsteady way ◄ like someone who is drunk
PSA 107:27 · ISA 24:20 · ISA 24:20 · ISA 29:9
Change | verb qal
to wander, to be uncertain = process by which a course of action is unsteady and subject to change
1 2SA 15:20 MT-K אנועד | MT-Q אְַנִיעְַךָ 2 PSA 59:12 NIV NJPS "make wander(ers)" | RSV NRSV ESV "make totter" NJB "shake" REB GNT "scatter" | CEV "make tremble"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
נוּעַ vb. quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter Qal wave
totter, go tottering
Niph. be tossed about
Hiph. toss about
shake, cause to totter
(shake), disturb
cause to wander
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