nadad · flee, wander

What it means

nadad (נָדַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flee, wander”.

Far away; be chased away.

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 go far away, or flap wings.
2. To roam like a fugitive.
3. To be thrown out and left without a place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• fled ×7
• flee ×7
• wanderer ×3
• wanders ×3
• he will be chased away ×1
• like a wandering ×1
• shake their heads ×1
• they chase him away ×1
• they have strayed ×1
• thrown away ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Esther×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×2
• Nahum×2

• Genesis 31:40

  This is how I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• 2 Samuel 23:6

  But the wicked are like thorns thrown away, all of them, for they are not taken with the hand.

• Esther 6:1

  That night the king’s sleep fled, and he said to bring the book of the memorials, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

• Job 15:23

  He wanders for bread: ‘Where is it?’; he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

• Job 18:18

  They drive him from light into darkness, and from the world they chase him away.

• Job 20:8

  Like a dream he will fly away, and they will not find him; and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

• Psalms 31:11

  Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, and to my neighbors exceedingly, and a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

• Psalms 55:7

  look, I would flee far away; I would spend the night in the wilderness. Selah.

• Psalms 64:8

  And their own tongue makes them stumble against themselves; all who see them shake their heads.

• Psalms 68:12

  “Kings of armies flee, they flee, and she who stays at home divides the spoil.

• Proverbs 27:8

  Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

• Isaiah 10:14

  And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers abandoned eggs, all the earth I have gathered; and there was no one who moved a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped.”

• Isaiah 10:31

  Madmenah has fled; the inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.

• Isaiah 16:2

  And it will be like a wandering bird, a nest cast out: the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

• Isaiah 16:3

  Bring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noon; hide the banished, do not expose the wanderer.

• Isaiah 21:14

  To meet the thirsty bring water, inhabitants of the land of Tema; with his bread meet the wanderer.

• Isaiah 21:15

  For from before swords they have fled, from before the drawn sword, and from before the bent bow, and from before the weight of battle.

• Isaiah 22:3

  All your rulers fled together; without the bow they were bound; all of you who were found were bound together; far away they had fled.

• Isaiah 33:3

  At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; when you rise up nations scatter.

• Jeremiah 4:25

  I looked, and look, there was no human being, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.

• Jeremiah 9:10

  For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lament, for they are burned, with no man passing through, and the sound of cattle is not heard; from the birds of the heavens to the beasts, they have fled, they are gone.

• Jeremiah 49:5

  Look, I am bringing upon you terror, declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot, from all who are around you; and you will be driven out, each one straight ahead, and there will be no one to gather the wanderer.

• Hosea 7:13

  Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have transgressed against me! And I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

• Hosea 9:17

  My Elohim will reject them, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

• 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?”

• Nahum 3:17

  Your guards are like the locust, and your officials like a swarm of grasshoppers that camp in the walls on a day of cold; the sun rises, and they flee, and their place is not known; where are they?

And 2 more times.