nua · wander, stagger

What it means

nua (נוּעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wander, stagger”.

Move to and fro, stagger, wander; shake.

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 shake, tremble, totter.
2. To go from place to place with no fixed home, like an outcast.
3. To wag one's head mockingly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shake ×7
• sway ×5
• wander ×5
• wander about ×3
• she shakes ×2
• shook ×2
• wandered ×2
• wanderer ×2
• Staggering ×1
• disturb ×1
• others ×10

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×3
• Daniel×1
• Amos×4
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×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.”

• Exodus 20:18

  All the people were seeing the thunders and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.

• Numbers 32:13

  YHWH’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the eyes of YHWH was finished.

• Judges 9:9

  But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I give up my fatness, by which through me Elohim and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’

• Judges 9:11

  But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I give up my sweetness and my good fruit and go to sway over the trees?’

• Judges 9:13

  But the vine said to them, ‘Should I give up my new wine, which cheers Elohim and men, and go to sway over the trees?’

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard. So Eli took her to be drunk.

• 2 Samuel 15:20

  Yesterday you came, and today shall I make you wander with us in going, while I go wherever I may go? Go back, and take back your brothers with you. Loyal love and faithfulness be with you.”

• 2 Kings 19:21

  This is the word that YHWH has spoken against him: “She despises you, she mocks you, the virgin, daughter of Zion; behind you she shakes her head, the daughter of Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 23:18

  He said, “Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones.” So they left his bones safe, with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

• Job 16:4

  I also could speak like you, if your soul were in place of my soul; I could string together words against you, and shake my head at you.

• Job 28:4

  He breaks open a shaft far from where people live; forgotten by the foot, they hang far from mortals, they sway.

• Psalms 22:7

  All who see me mock me; they part their lips, they shake their head:

• Psalms 59:11

  Do not kill them, lest my people forget; make them wander by your power, and bring them down, our shield, Adonai.

• Psalms 59:15

  They wander about to eat; if they are not satisfied, they spend the night.

• Psalms 107:27

  They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

• Psalms 109:10

  And let his sons wander about and beg, and let them seek from their ruins.

• Psalms 109:25

  And I have become a reproach to them; they see me, they shake their head.

• Proverbs 5:6

  The path of life she does not level; her tracks wander, and she does not know it.

• Isaiah 6:4

  And the pivots of the thresholds shook at the voice of the one who called, and the house was filling with smoke.

• Isaiah 7:2

  And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Aram has settled on Ephraim.” And his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

• Isaiah 19:1

  The burden of Egypt. Look, YHWH is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the heart of Egypt melts within it.

• 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 29:9

  Linger and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they sway, but not with intoxicating drink.

• Isaiah 37:22

  this is the word that YHWH has spoken against him: “She despises you, she mocks you, the virgin, daughter of Zion; behind you she shakes her head, the daughter of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 14:10

  Thus says YHWH to this people: “So they have loved to wander; their feet they have not restrained; and YHWH does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”

• Lamentations 2:15

  They clap their hands at you, all who pass by on the road; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth’?”

• Lamentations 4:14

  They wandered blind through the streets, defiled with blood, so that no one could touch their garments.

• Lamentations 4:15

  “Turn away, unclean!” they called to them; “turn away, turn away, do not touch!” When they fled, they also wandered; they said among the nations, “They will not continue to reside as aliens here.”

• Daniel 10:10

  And look, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my knees and the palms of my hands.

• Amos 4:8

  And two or three cities would stagger to one city to drink water, and they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

• Amos 8:12

  And they will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run to and fro to seek the word of YHWH, but they will not find it.

• Amos 9:9

  For look, I am commanding, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble falls to the ground.

• Nahum 3:12

  All your fortresses are fig trees with first-ripe fruit; if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

• Zephaniah 2:15

  This is the exultant city who sat in security, who said in her heart, “I, and no one else.” How she has become a horror, a resting place for animals! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake his hand.

And 4 more times.