nave · abode; pasture

What it means

nave (נָוֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “abode; pasture”.

Dwelling, place where one lives; in other passages, pasture.

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. A place to live.
2. Where the flock rests.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• abode ×11
• dwelling ×10
• fold ×9
• pasture ×2
• meadow ×1
• pastures ×1
• she who stays ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×11
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Exodus 15:13

  In your loyal love you have led the people whom you redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

• 2 Samuel 7:8

  And now, thus you shall say to my servant, to David, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be leader over my people, over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 15:25

  The king said to Zadok, “Take back the ark of Elohim to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of YHWH, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling.

• 1 Chronicles 17:7

  And now, thus you shall say to my servant, to David, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be leader over my people Israel.

• Job 5:3

  I have seen the fool taking root, and I cursed his dwelling suddenly.

• Job 5:24

  You will know that your tent is at peace, and you will inspect your dwelling and miss nothing.

• Job 8:6

  if you are pure and upright, surely now he will rouse himself for you and restore the dwelling of your righteousness.

• Job 18:15

  What is not his dwells in his tent; sulfur is scattered over his abode.

• Psalms 68:12

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

• Psalms 79:7

  for they have devoured Jacob, and his abode they have laid waste.

• Proverbs 3:33

  The curse of YHWH is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the righteous he blesses.

• Proverbs 21:20

  Desirable treasure and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a senseless man swallows it up.

• Proverbs 24:15

  Do not lie in wait, wicked man, at the dwelling of the righteous; do not plunder his resting place;

• Isaiah 27:10

  For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.

• Isaiah 32:18

  And my people will dwell in an abode of peace, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

• Isaiah 33:20

  Gaze on Zion, the town of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, and none of its cords will be broken.

• Isaiah 34:13

  And brambles will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be an abode of jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

• Isaiah 35:7

  And the burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the abode of jackals, its lair, grass will become reed and papyrus.

• Isaiah 65:10

  And Sharon will become an abode for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for cattle, for my people who have sought me.

• Jeremiah 10:25

  Pour out your fury on the nations that do not know you, and on the families that do not call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and his abode they have laid waste.

• Jeremiah 23:3

  And I will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their abode, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

• Jeremiah 25:30

  And you, prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, ‘YHWH will roar from on high, and from his holy dwelling he will utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold; a shout, like those who tread grapes, he will raise against all the inhabitants of the earth.

• Jeremiah 31:23

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: “Once more they will say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ‘May YHWH bless you, dwelling of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

• Jeremiah 33:12

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Once more there will be in this place that is laid waste, without human being or even livestock, and in all its cities, a dwelling of shepherds who make the flock lie down.

• Jeremiah 49:19

  Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make him run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

• Jeremiah 49:20

  Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH which he has counseled against Edom, and his plans which he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he will make desolate their fold because of them.

• Jeremiah 50:7

  All who found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against YHWH, the dwelling of righteousness, and the hope of their fathers, YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 50:19

  And I will bring back Israel to his fold, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and on the mountain of Ephraim and Gilead his soul will be satisfied.

• Jeremiah 50:44

  Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make them run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

• Jeremiah 50:45

  Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH which he has counseled against Babylon, and his plans which he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he will make desolate their fold because of them.

• Ezekiel 25:5

  And I will make Rabbah a fold for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks; and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 34:14

  In good pasture I will feed them, and on the mountains of the height of Israel will be their fold; there they will lie down in a good fold, and in fat pasture they will graze on the mountains of Israel.

• Hosea 9:13

  Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a meadow; but Ephraim is to bring out his children to the killer.

• Zephaniah 2:6

  And the strip of the sea will become pastures, meadows for shepherds, and folds for sheep.

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