nadaf · driven (by the wind)

What it means

nadaf (נָדַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “driven (by the wind)”.

Be driven by the wind, blown 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 carry far off, as the wind does chaff or smoke.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• driven ×4
• blown away ×1
• drives away ×1
• will drive him away ×1
• windblown ×1
• you blow them away ×1

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2

• Leviticus 26:36

  And as for those who are left of you, I will bring faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.

• Job 13:25

  Will you terrorize a windblown leaf, and pursue dry straw?

• Job 32:13

  Lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom; El will drive him away, not a man.’

• Psalms 1:4

  Not so the wicked, but they are like the chaff that the wind drives away.

• Psalms 68:2

  As smoke is blown away, you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before Elohim.

• Proverbs 21:6

  Getting treasures with a tongue of falsehood is a vapor driven away; they are seekers of death.

• Isaiah 19:7

  The meadows by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and every sown field of the Nile will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

• Isaiah 41:2

  Who has stirred up from the east the one whom righteousness calls to his feet? He gives up before him nations, and over kings he makes him rule; he makes them like dust to his sword, like stubble driven to his bow.

And 1 more times.