נוּעַ nûwaʻ — to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Translated in the KJV as continually, fugitive, × make, to up and down, be gone away, move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set.
a primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined).
nûwaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 5Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (active) 3Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive absolute 2
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Wayyiqtol 3Perfect (qatal) 3Jussive 1Cohortative 1Imperative 1
And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.
Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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 ›