נָדַד nâdad

Meaning

properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away

In the King James Version: chase (away), [idiom] could not, depart, flee ([idiom] apace, away), (re-) move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 31:40 As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
• 2 Samuel 23:6 But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
• Esther 6:1 That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
• Job 15:23 He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
• Job 18:18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Job 20:8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
• Psalms 31:11 Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.
• Psalms 55:7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
• Psalms 64:8 They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
• Psalms 68:12 “Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.
• Proverbs 27:8 Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
• Isaiah 10:14 My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
• Isaiah 10:31 Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.
• Isaiah 16:2 Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
• Isaiah 16:3 “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
• Isaiah 21:14 Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
• Isaiah 21:15 For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
• Isaiah 22:3 All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
• Isaiah 33:3 The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.
• Jeremiah 4:25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
• Jeremiah 9:10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
• Jeremiah 49:5 Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.
• Hosea 7:13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
• Hosea 9:17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
• Nahum 3:7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
• Nahum 3:17 Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.