Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
KJV Usage: lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · נָפָה · תְּנוּפָה
Sacrifice | verb hif, verb hof
to wave, to present (an offering) = action by which humans hold an object in their hands and move it to and fro, ► probably in order to signal to a deity that the object in their hands is intended for them
EXO 29:24 · EXO 29:26 · EXO 29:27 · EXO 35:22 · LEV 7:30 · LEV 8:27 · LEV 8:29 · LEV 9:21 · LEV 10:15 · LEV 14:12 · LEV 14:24 · LEV 23:11 · LEV 23:11 · LEV 23:12 · LEV 23:20 · NUM 5:25 · NUM 6:20 · NUM 8:11 · NUM 8:13 · NUM 8:15 · NUM 8:21
Hold | verb hif
to wield, to use (a tool) = action by which humans hold an implement or tool in their hand and move it up and down for a certain purpose
EXO 20:25 · DEU 23:26 · DEU 27:5 · JOS 8:31 · ISA 10:15 · ISA 10:15
Non-Whole | verb hif
to sieve, to sift literally: to wave; hence: = causative action by which humans hold a sieve and shake it in order to separate the grain from the remaining chaff and other particles to complete the process of winnowing; ≈ winnowing is often used as a figure of speech to denote the process of distinguishing between good and bad
verb · נֹפֶת
Scatter | verb qal
to scatter, to sprinkle = causative action by which someone takes a quantity of a dry substance or a liquid with one's hand and scatters it over an object
Scatter | verb hif
to shower literally: to cause to scatter; hence: = causative process by which deities cause rain to fall all over an area
1 ISA 30:28 RSV NJB NRSV ESV "to sift" REB "sieves" NIV "shakes" | NJPS "to set (a yoke)"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[נוּף] vb. move to and fro, wave, besprinkle Qal I have besprinkled my couch with myrrh
Po‛lel he brandisheth his hand toward the mt.
Hiph. wield, move to and fro in using it
Shake or wave the hand
swing to and fro, as a signal
Oft. term. techn. in P (H), of rite in which originally the priest lifted his share of offering and waved it, i.e. moved it toward altar and back, in token of its presentation to God and its return by him to priest
Shed abroad
Hoph. be waved
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