נָהַגnâhag
נָהַג: drive, conduct
Pronunciation: naw-hag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5090
Meanings
Qal: active (Lamentations 3:2; 1 Samuel 30:20; Isaiah 20:4)
1. drive (Exodus 3:1; Isaiah 11:6; Psalms 80:2)
2. behaving itself (Ecclesiastes 2:3)
Pi`el
1. drive away, lead off (Genesis 31:26; Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 28:37)
2. lead on, guide (Psalms 78:52; Isaiah 49:10; Psalms 23:2)
3. cause to drive (2 Kings 9:20; Exodus 14:25)
נָהַג: Pi`el: moan, lament (Nahum 2:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 31 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:18 and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all the belongings he had acquired in Paddan-aram and set out for the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived.
- Genesis 31:26 “What do you mean by deceiving me like this?” Laban demanded. “How dare you drag my daughters away like prisoners of war?
- Exodus 3:1 One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 10:13 So Moses raised his staff over Egypt, and the Lord caused an east wind to blow over the land all that day and through the night. When morning arrived, the east wind had brought the locusts.
- Exodus 14:25 He twisted their chariot wheels, making their chariots difficult to drive. “Let’s get out of here—away from these Israelites!” the Egyptians shouted. “The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt!”
- Deuteronomy 4:27 For the Lord will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive.
See every passage
- Genesis 31:18, 31:26
- Exodus 3:1, 10:13, 14:25
- Deuteronomy 4:27, 28:37
- 1 Samuel 23:5, 30:2, 30:20, 30:22
- 2 Samuel 6:3
- 2 Kings 4:24, 9:20
- 1 Chronicles 13:7, 20:1
- 2 Chronicles 25:11
- Job 24:3
- Psalms 48:14, 78:26, 78:52, 80:1
- Ecclesiastes 2:3
- Song of Solomon 8:2
- Isaiah 11:6, 20:4, 49:10, 60:11, 63:14
- Lamentations 3:2
- Nahum 2:7
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).