# H5074 נָדַד

נָדַד (nâdad), Strong’s H5074: properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away KJV: chase (away), [idiom] could not, depart…

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*nâdad* — properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away

KJV: chase (away), [idiom] could not, depart, flee ([idiom] apace, away), (re-) move…

Occurs 28 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [נָדַד] vb. retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter
- Qal
- 1 retreat, flee
- 2 flee, depart
- 3 wander, stray
- 4 trans. flutter wings
- Po‛ēl the sun hath arisen and it (the locust swarm) fleeth away
- Hiph. chase away
- Hoph. be chased away
- Hithpo‛l. flee away

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=40) — This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- [2 Samuel 23:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=6) — But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
- [Isaiah 10:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=14) — My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered…
- [Isaiah 10:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=31) — Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
- [Isaiah 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/16?v=2) — For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
- [Isaiah 16:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/16?v=3) — Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t…
- [Isaiah 21:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/21?v=14) — They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
- [Isaiah 21:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/21?v=15) — For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
- [Isaiah 22:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=3) — All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They…
- [Isaiah 33:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=3) — At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.