# H5128 נוּעַ

נוּעַ (nûwaʻ), Strong’s H5128: to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined) KJV: continually, fugitive, [idiom] make, to (go) up and down, be gone away…

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*nûwaʻ* — to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)

KJV: continually, fugitive, [idiom] make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be)…

Occurs 40 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נוּעַ vb. quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter
- Qal
- 1 wave
- 2 totter, go tottering
- Niph. be tossed about
- Hiph.
- 1 toss about
- 2 shake, cause to totter
- 3 (shake), disturb
- 4 cause to wander

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=12) — From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the…
- [Genesis 4:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=14) — Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a…
- [Exodus 20:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=18) — All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking. When the…
- [Numbers 32:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=13) — The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all…
- [Judges 9:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=9) — “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to…
- [Judges 9:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=11) — “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the…
- [Judges 9:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=13) — “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the…
- [1 Samuel 1:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=13) — Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
- [2 Samuel 15:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/15?v=20) — Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and…
- [2 Kings 19:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/19?v=21) — This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed…