נוּף nûwph — to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro)
Translated in the KJV as lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
a primitive root; to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.).
nûwph in each stem
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 13Perfect (qatal) 5Infinitive construct 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Wayyiqtol 3Participle (active) 3Imperative 1
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Polel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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 ›