נָדַד nâdad — properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down)
Translated in the KJV as chase, × could not, depart, flee (× apace, away), move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).
a primitive root; properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away.
nâdad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 9Participle (active) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Hitpolel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
Po'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›