Lexical Definition

‎נָדַף‎ nâdaph (naw-daf') to drive ^H:V
a primitive root

drive (away, to and fro), thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro.

• to shove asunder, i.e. disperse

1) to drive, drive away, drive asunder
1a) (Qal) to drive about
1b)(Niphal) to be driven, be driven about

See Greek: διώκω · ἐκλείπω · ἐξωθέω · κινέω · ὀνειδίζω · παροξύνω · φέρω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎נָדַף‎] verb drive, drive asunder ( Late Hebrew id., spread, be diffused, disseminated (of odour); Arabic strike, beat, especially bow-string with mallet, to clean cotton; also play the lyre; Aramaic ‎נְדַף‎ = Late Hebrew; Ethiopic throw, hurl); —

Qal Imperfect suffix ‎יִדְּפֶנּוּ‎ Job 32:13 (jussive); 3 feminine singular suffix ‎תִּדְּפֶנּוּ‎ Ps 1:4 2 masculine singular ‎תִּנְדֹּף‎ Ps 68:3* — drive about, chaff, subject wind Ps 1:4 wicked, subject God Ps 68:3* (‎כְּהִנְדֹּף עָשָׁן‎, see below); compare Job 32:13 (= defeat, anguish).

Niph`al Perfect ‎נִדַּף‎ Isa 19:7 Infinitive. ‎כְּהִנְדֹּף‎ Ps 68:3* (see Kö^{i. 306 f}); Participle ‎נִדָּף‎ Lev 26:36 + 3 t.; — be driven, driven about (especially by wind) Ps 68:3*, see above (like a driving [Che](/btb/not_created.html) drift] of smoke); of breath (‎הֶבֶל‎) figurative of deceitful gain Prov 21:6 (ᵐ5 Hi Ew ‎רֹדֵף‎; see De Now); of withered plant Isa 19:7 (where subject ‎עָרוֺת‎, ‎מִוְרָע‎ i.e. place; whence Che transitive ‎׳‎‎נ‎ vanish; but reference probably to plant-life in these places, see Di); of leaf Lev 26:36 (as making slight sound), Job 13:25 (figurative of sufferer, || ‎קַשׁ יָבֵשׁ‎), of chaff (‎קַשׁ‎) Isa 41:2 (simile of bow of hostile kings || ‎עָפָר‎).

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