# H5106 נוּא

נוּא (nûwʼ), Strong’s H5106: to refuse, forbid, dissuade, or neutralize KJV: break, disallow, discourage, make of none effect.. Occurs 8 times.

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*nûwʼ* — to refuse, forbid, dissuade, or neutralize

KJV: break, disallow, discourage, make of none effect.

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [נוא] vb. hinder, restrain, frustrate
- Qal but read Hiph.
- Hiph.
- 1 restrain, forbid (performance of vow); frustrate (device of people); refuse
- 2 refrain, make averse the heart

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 30:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=6) — But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her…
- [Numbers 30:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=9) — But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash…
- [Numbers 30:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=12) — and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every…
- [Numbers 32:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=7) — Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?
- [Numbers 32:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=9) — For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel…
- [Psalms 33:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/33?v=10) — The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
- [Psalms 141:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/141?v=5) — Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse…