נוּעַ
nu.a (H5128)
to shake
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# Analytical Synthesis of נוּעַ (nu'a) The Hebrew verb נוּעַ (nu'a) carries the fundamental meaning "to shake" and appears 40 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency suggests it was a standard term for describing movement characterized by trembling or oscillation, whether physical, emotional, or metaphorical. The word functions as a simple, concrete verb describing an observable action—the kind of shaking that occurs in natural phenomena or as a response to significant events. The 40 occurrences distributed across the biblical corpus indicate that shaking serves as an important descriptive concept in Hebrew literature. This repetition suggests the word was essential for conveying states of instability, disturbance, or response to powerful circumstances. The relatively high frequency for a single verb demonstrates that biblical authors regularly needed this particular term to communicate the idea of trembling or oscillation across various contexts and narratives. Without additional contextual usage data, the essential lexical meaning remains straightforward: נוּעַ denotes the physical action or state of shaking. Its consistent presence across the biblical text indicates it functioned as a reliable, recognizable term for readers and listeners, making it a foundational vocabulary item for describing movement and disturbance in Hebrew scriptural communication.
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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 earth.”
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 fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.
“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 wave back and forth over the trees?’
“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 trees?’
“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 trees?’
Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.
“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.
“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.