nuf · wave

What it means

nuf (נוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wave”.

Move back and forth or lift up; for example, swing a tool over stone, wave the hand, or present an offering by waving it.

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 swing an offering before YHWH to present it.
2. To brandish or swing something, like a hand.
3. To make drops of rain, water or perfume fall on something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wave ×17
• waved ×7
• waving ×2
• wield ×2
• I have sprinkled ×1
• I raised ×1
• against the one who wields it ×1
• had been lifted ×1
• he will shake ×1
• if you lift ×1
• others ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×6
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 20:25

  And if you make me an altar of stones, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you lift your tool on it, you profane it.

• Exodus 29:24

  You shall put all of it on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Exodus 29:26

  You shall take the breast from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron and wave it as a wave offering before YHWH, and it shall be yours as a portion.

• Exodus 29:27

  You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was waved and which was lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.

• Exodus 35:22

  And they came, the men with the women, all who were generous of heart; they brought brooches and earrings and rings and necklaces, all kinds of articles of gold; and every man who waved a wave offering of gold to YHWH.

• Leviticus 7:30

  His own hands shall bring the fire offerings of YHWH; the fat with the breast he shall bring —the breast to wave it as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 8:27

  He put it all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 8:29

  Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before YHWH; from the ram of ordination it was Moses’ portion, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 9:21

  But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave offering before YHWH, as Moses had commanded.

• Leviticus 10:15

  The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring, together with the fire offerings of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering before YHWH; and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, as a statute forever, as YHWH has commanded.”

• Leviticus 14:12

  The priest shall take the one lamb and present it as a guilt offering, with the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:24

  The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:11

  And he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH for your acceptance; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

• Leviticus 23:12

  And on the day you wave the sheaf you shall offer a lamb without defect, a year old, as a burnt offering to YHWH,

• Leviticus 23:20

  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before YHWH, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to YHWH for the priest.

• Numbers 5:25

  And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the grain offering of jealousy, and wave the grain offering before YHWH, and bring it to the altar.

• Numbers 6:20

  And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH; it is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and with the thigh of the contribution. And afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.

• Numbers 8:11

  And Aaron shall wave the Levites as a wave offering before YHWH from the sons of Israel, and they shall be for doing the service of YHWH.

• Numbers 8:13

  And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and wave them as a wave offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 8:15

  And after that the Levites shall go in to serve the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and waved them as a wave offering.

• Numbers 8:21

  And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron waved them as a wave offering before YHWH, and Aaron made expiation for them to cleanse them.

• Deuteronomy 23:25

  When you go into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck ears with your hand, but a sickle you shall not swing over the standing grain of your neighbor.

• Deuteronomy 27:5

  And you shall build there an altar to YHWH your Elohim, an altar of stones; you shall not wield iron on them.

• Joshua 8:31

  just as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the instruction of Moses: an altar of whole stones, on which no iron had been lifted. And they offered up on it burnt offerings to YHWH, and sacrificed peace offerings.

• 2 Kings 5:11

  Naaman was angry and went away and said, “Look, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out and stand and call on the name of YHWH his Elohim, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leprous man.’

• Job 31:21

  if I raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw my help in the gate,

• Psalms 68:9

  A generous rain you poured out, Elohim; your inheritance, when it was weary, you made it firm.

• Proverbs 7:17

  I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

• Isaiah 10:15

  Shall the axe boast over the one who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against the one who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it, as if a staff should lift one who is not wood!

• Isaiah 10:32

  Yet today at Nob he will halt; he will shake his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 11:15

  And YHWH will devote to destruction the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the River with the heat of his wind, and strike it into seven streams, and make people cross in sandals.

• Isaiah 13:2

  On a bare mountain raise a banner; lift up the voice to them; wave the hand, and let them enter the doorways of the nobles.

• Isaiah 19:16

  On that day Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be in dread before the waving of the hand of YHWH Tsevaot which he is waving over it.

• Isaiah 30:28

  and his blast like a torrent that sweeps away, that reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of falsehood; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jaws of the peoples.

• Zechariah 2:9

  For look, I am waving my hand over them, and they will be plunder for their slaves,” and you will know that YHWH Tsevaot has sent me.

And 2 more times.