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Strong's #5117: nuwach (pronounced noo'-akh)

a primitive root; to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.):--cease, be confederate, lay, let down, (be) quiet, remain, (cause to, be at, give, have, make to) rest, set down. Compare 3241.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nûach

1) to rest

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to rest, settle down and remain

1a2) to repose, have rest, be quiet

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to cause to rest, give rest to, make quiet

1b2) to cause to rest, cause to alight, set down

1b3) to lay or set down, deposit, let lie, place

1b4) to let remain, leave

1b5) to leave, depart from

1b6) to abandon

1b7) to permit

1c) (Hophal)

1c1) to obtain rest, be granted rest

1c2) to be left, be placed

1c3) open space (substantive)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 144 times:

1 Samuel 25:9: "words in the name of David, and ceased."
2 Samuel 7:1: "sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all"
2 Samuel 7:11: "to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD"
2 Samuel 16:11: "my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for"
2 Samuel 16:21: "thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel"
2 Samuel 17:12: "place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew"
2 Samuel 20:3: "women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward,"
2 Samuel 21:10: "and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts"
1 Kings 5:4: "But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary"
1 Kings 7:47: "And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many:"
1 Kings 8:9: "of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD"
1 Kings 13:29: "the carcass of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old"
1 Kings 13:30: " And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!"
1 Kings 13:31: "the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:"
1 Kings 19:3: "to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there."
2 Kings 2:15: "saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came"
2 Kings 17:29: "Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which"
2 Kings 23:18: "And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone,"
1 Chronicles 16:21: " He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,"
1 Chronicles 22:9: "shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about:"
1 Chronicles 22:18: "the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given"
1 Chronicles 23:25: "The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever:"
2 Chronicles 1:14: "and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with"
2 Chronicles 4:8: "He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side,"
2 Chronicles 9:25: "and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with"
2 Chronicles 14:6: "years; because the LORD had given him rest."
2 Chronicles 14:7: "the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered."
2 Chronicles 15:15: "desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about."
2 Chronicles 20:30: "of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about."
Nehemiah 9:28: " But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies,"
Esther 3:8: "laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer"
Esther 9:16: "and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes"
Esther 9:17: "day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day"
Esther 9:18: "on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made"
Esther 9:22: "As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which"
Job 3:13: "and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"
Job 3:17: "from troubling; and there the weary be at rest."
Job 3:26: "neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."
Psalms 17:14: "in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest"
Psalms 105:14: " He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;"
Psalms 119:121: "I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors."
Psalms 125:3: "the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest"
Proverbs 14:33: "Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known."
Proverbs 21:16: "that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
Proverbs 29:17: "Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul."
Ecclesiastes 2:18: "which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be"
Ecclesiastes 5:12: "but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."
Ecclesiastes 7:9: "to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
Ecclesiastes 7:18: "of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand:"
Ecclesiastes 10:4: "of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding"









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