nahag · drive, lead

What it means

nahag (נָהַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drive, lead”.

Along (livestock, people); carry off.

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 move animals or people forward; to guide.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• drove ×6
• led ×5
• will lead ×5
• Drive ×4
• were driving ×2
• He has driven ×1
• I would lead you ×1
• carried off ×1
• carried them off ×1
• he drives ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Lamentations×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 31:18

  He drove off all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 31:26

  Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of the sword.

• Exodus 3:1

  Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock beyond the wilderness and came to the mountain of Elohim, to Horeb.

• Exodus 10:13

  So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and YHWH drove an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; when it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.

• Exodus 14:25

  He removed the wheels of their chariots and made them drive with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for YHWH is fighting for them against Egypt.”

• Deuteronomy 4:27

  YHWH will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which YHWH will lead you.

• Deuteronomy 28:37

  And you will become a horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples where YHWH will drive you.

• 1 Samuel 23:5

  David and his men went to Keilah and fought against the Philistines; he drove away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

• 1 Samuel 30:2

  They had taken captive the women who were in it, from small to great; they had not put to death anyone, but carried them off and went on their way.

• 1 Samuel 30:20

  David took all the sheep and goats and the cattle; they drove before those livestock and said, “This is David’s spoil.”

• 1 Samuel 30:22

  Every evil and wicked man among the men who had gone with David answered and said, “Because they did not go with me, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have rescued, except to each man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and go.”

• 2 Samuel 6:3

  They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart.

• 2 Kings 4:24

  She saddled the donkey and said to her young man, “Drive and go; do not hold back the riding for me unless I tell you.”

• 2 Kings 9:20

  The watchman reported, saying, “He came to them, but he has not come back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he drives like a madman.”

• 1 Chronicles 13:7

  They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings go out, that Joab led out the force of the army and destroyed the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and tore it down.

• 2 Chronicles 25:11

  Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck the sons of Seir, ten thousand.

• Job 24:3

  The donkey of the orphans they drive away; they take in pledge the ox of the widow.

• Psalms 48:14

  For this is Elohim, our Elohim forever and ever; he will lead us until death.

• Psalms 78:26

  He sent forth the east wind in the heavens, and drove by his strength the south wind,

• Psalms 78:52

  And he made his people set out like sheep, and drove them like a flock in the wilderness.

• Psalms 80:1

  For the director. On The Lilies of the Testimony. Of Asaph. A psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubim, shine forth.

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I explored in my heart to draw my flesh with wine while my heart was guiding me with wisdom, and to lay hold on witlessness, until I might see what was good for human beings that they should do under the heavens during the number of the days of their life.

• Song of Songs 8:2

  I would lead you, I would bring you into the house of my mother; you would teach me; I would give you to drink of the spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

• Isaiah 11:6

  And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fattened animal together, and a little boy will lead them.

• Isaiah 20:4

  so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered: the nakedness of Egypt.

• Isaiah 49:10

  They will not hunger nor thirst, and neither the scorching ground nor the sun will strike them; for he who has compassion on them will lead them, and by springs of water he will guide them.

• Isaiah 60:11

  And your gates will be open continually; day and night they will not be shut, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings being led.

• Isaiah 63:14

  Like livestock that goes down into the valley, the spirit of YHWH gave them rest; so you led your people, to make for yourself a name of beauty.

• Lamentations 3:2

  He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.

• Nahum 2:7

  And it is decided: she is stripped, she is carried up, and her slave women moan like the sound of doves, beating on their hearts.