the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #5086 - נָדַף
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- to drive, drive away, drive asunder
- (Qal) to drive about
- 1b)(Niphal) to be driven, be driven about
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2384) pdn (נדפ NDP) AC: Toss CO: ? AB: ?: The back and forth falling of a leaf as it falls from a tree. [from: dn- being tossed to and fro]
V) pdn (נדפ NDP) - Toss: To toss back and forth. KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Niphal) drive, thrust, shake, toss - Strongs: H5086 (נָדַף)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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 Psalm 1:4; 2 masculine singular תִּנְדֹּף Psalm 68:3; — drive about, chaff, subject wind Psalm 1:4; wicked, subject God Psalm 68:3 (כְּהִנְדֹּף עָשָׁן, see below); compare Job 32:13 (= defeat, anguish).
Niph`al Perfect נִדַּף Isaiah 19:7; Infinitive. כְּהִנְדֹּף Psalm 68:3 (see Kö i. 306 f); Participle נִדָּף Leviticus 26:36 3t.; — be driven, driven about (especially by wind) Psalm 68:3, see above (like a driving [Che drift] of smoke); of breath (הֶבֶל) figurative of deceitful gain Proverbs 21:6 (ᵐ5 Hi Ew רֹדֵף; see De Now); of withered plant Isaiah 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 Leviticus 26:36 (as making slight sound), Job 13:25 (figurative of sufferer, "" קַשׁ יָבֵשׁ), of chaff (קַשׁ) Isaiah 41:2 (simile of bow of hostile kings "" עָפָר).
נָדַף נָדַף fut. יִנְדֹּף Psalms 68:3, and יִדֹּף Psalms 1:4 to dispel, to drive away, as the wind drives away chaff, stubble, smoke, Psalms 1:4, 68:3 to put to flight an enemy, i.e. to conquer, metaph. Job 32:13.
Niphal נִדַּף pass. to be driven away, Isaiah 41:2; Psalms 68:3 עָלֶה נִדָּף a leaf driven by the wind, Levit. 26:36 Job 13:25 inf. constr. הִנְדֹּף Psalms 68:3.
