nud · wander; shake the head

What it means

nud (נוּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wander; shake the head”.

Wander aimlessly, flee. Elsewhere, shake the head in sympathy: console.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To roam, run off.
2. To sway, like a reed.
3. To show sorrow for someone and comfort him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• grieve ×7
• wander ×4
• Flee ×2
• drifter ×2
• shake ×2
• sways ×2
• grieving ×1
• show him sympathy ×1
• they have fled ×1
• they showed him sympathy ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×11
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 4:12

  When you work the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you; a wanderer and a drifter you will be on the earth.”

• Genesis 4:14

  Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your presence I will be hidden; and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”

• 1 Kings 14:15

  YHWH will strike Israel, as the reed sways in the water; and he will uproot Israel from off this good land that he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River Euphrates, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking YHWH to anger.

• 2 Kings 21:8

  And I will not again make the foot of Israel wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, only if they are careful to do according to all that I commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

• Job 2:11

  When Job’s three companions heard all this evil that had come upon him, they came, each from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; they arranged to meet together to come to show him sympathy and to comfort him.

• Job 42:11

  Then there came to him all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him; and they gave him each one a qesita and each one a ring of gold.

• Psalms 11:1

  For the director. Of David. In YHWH I have taken refuge; how do you say to my soul, “Flee to your mountain, bird”?

• Psalms 36:11

  Let not the foot of pride come against me, and the hand of the wicked, let it not make me wander.

• Psalms 69:20

  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick; I waited for someone to grieve with me, but there was none, and for comforters, but I did not find any.

• Proverbs 26:2

  Like a sparrow in its wandering, like a swallow in its flying, so a curse without cause does not arrive.

• Isaiah 24:20

  Staggering, the earth staggers like a drunkard, and it sways like a hut; and its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it will fall and will not rise again.

• Isaiah 51:19

  These two things have befallen you —who will grieve for you?— the devastation and the breaking, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

• Jeremiah 4:1

  “If you return, Israel, declares YHWH, to me return; and if you remove your detestable things from before me and do not wander,

• Jeremiah 15:5

  For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? And who will grieve for you? And who will turn aside to ask about your peace?

• Jeremiah 16:5

  For thus says YHWH: Do not enter a house of funeral feasting, nor go to mourn, nor grieve for them, for I have withdrawn my peace from this people, declares YHWH, the loyal love and the compassion.

• Jeremiah 18:16

  to make their land a horror, a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and shake his head.

• Jeremiah 22:10

  Do not weep for the dead and do not grieve for him; weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return again or see the land of his birth.

• Jeremiah 31:18

  I have surely heard Ephraim grieving: ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf not trained; bring me back, and I will come back, for you are YHWH my Elohim.

• Jeremiah 48:17

  Grieve for him, all who are around him, and all who know his name; say, “How the scepter of strength is broken, the staff of splendor!”

• Jeremiah 48:27

  And was not Israel the laughingstock for you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you shake your head?

• Jeremiah 49:30

  Flee, wander off far away, go down deep to dwell, inhabitants of Hazor, declares YHWH; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has counseled against you a counsel, and he has planned against you a plan.

• Jeremiah 50:3

  For a nation from the north has come up against her; it will make her land a horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it; from human being to livestock they have fled, they have gone.

• Jeremiah 50:8

  Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans go out, and be like male goats before the flock.

• Nahum 3:7

  And it will happen that all who see you will flee from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ From where shall I seek comforters for you?”