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Strong's #5068 - נָדַב
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- to incite, impel, make willing
- (Qal) to incite, impel
- (Hithpael)
- to volunteer
- to offer free-will offerings
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2380) bdn (נדב NDB) AC: Offer CO: Offering AB: Honor: The offering of something with a willing heart as a sign of honor.
V) bdn (נדב NDB) - Offer: To offer something from a willing heart. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (21): (vf: Paal, Hitpael) willingly, offer, freely, freewill, offering - Strongs: H5068 (נָדַב), H5069 (נְדַב)
Nf1) ebdn (נדבה NDBH) - Offering: A freewill offering. KJV (26): freewill, offering, free, willing, voluntary, plentiful, willingly - Strongs: H5071 (נְדָבָה)
bm) bidn (נדיב NDYB) - I. Willing: II. Noble:One with a willing heart. KJV (28): prince, noble, willing, free, liberal - Strongs: H5081 (נָדִיב)
bf1) ebidn (נדיבה NDYBH) - Honor: Of one with a willing heart. KJV (1): soul - Strongs: H5082 (נְדִיבָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular נָדַב Exodus 35:29; 3 feminine singular נָָֽדְבָה Exodus 35:21; Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix יִדְּבֶנּוּ Exodus 25:2; — אֲשֶׁר נָדַב לִבּוֺ Exodus 25:2 whose heart incited compare Exodus 35:29; subject רוּחַ Exodus 35:21 (all P).
Hithpa`el Perfect 1 singular הִתְנַדַּבְתִּי 1 Chronicles 29:27; 3 masculine plural הִתְנַדְּבוּ Ezra 2:68; 1 Chronicles 29:9; Imperfect 3 masculine plural יִתְנַדְּבוּ 1 Chronicles 29:6; Infinitive הִתְנַדֵּב Judges 5:2 2t.; הִתְנַדֶּבֿ 1 Chronicles 29:17; sf הִתְנַדְּבָם 1 Chronicles 29:9; Participle מִתְנַדֵּב Ezra 3:5 + 2.t.; plural מִתְנַדְּבִים Judges 5:9; Nehemiah 11:2; —
1 volunteer for war Judges 5:2,9; for service of other kinds 2 Chronicles 17:16; Nehemiah 11:2.
2 offer freewill-offerings for the first temple 1 Chronicles 29:5,6,9 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 29:14,17 (twice in verse); for the second Ezra 1:4; Ezra 2:68; Ezra 3:5 (compare Biblical Aramaic).
נָדַב
(1) i.q. Arab. نَدُبَ to impel, to urge, to incite to anything (kindred to נָדַף). It only occurs in this expression, Exodus 25:2, כָּל־אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִדְּבֶנּוּ לִבּוֹ “whomsoever his heart impelled;” i.e. who did it willingly, spontaneously, Exodus 35:21, 29 Exodus 35:29.
(2) intrans. like the Arab. نَدُبَ to impel oneself; hence to be willing, liberal, generous; see נָדִיב and Hithpael.
Hithpael
(1) to impel oneself, to shew oneself willing, to offer oneself freely; followed by a gerund, Nehemiah 11:2 specially of volunteer soldiers (compare as to the same usage in Arabic, Alb. Schult. ad Ham. p. 310 Epist. ad Menken. p. 40), Judges 5:2, Judges 5:9 compare Psalms 110:3 used of those who offered themselves willingly for sacred military service, 2 Chronicles 17:16.
(2) to give spontaneously, or willingly, to offer, e.g. a gift to Jehovah; with an acc., 1 Chronicles 29:9, 14:17 Ezra 1:6, 2:68 3:5.
Derivatives נְדָבָה, נָדִיב, and the pr.n נָדָב, נוֹדָב.