Strong's #5128: nuwa` (pronounced noo'-ah)

a primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined):--continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nûa‛

1) to quiver, totter, shake, reel, stagger, wander, move, sift, make move, wave, waver, tremble

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to wave, quiver, vibrate, swing, stagger, tremble, be unstable

1a2) to totter, go tottering

1a2a) vagabond (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be tossed about or around

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to toss about

1c2) to shake, cause to totter

1c3) to shake, disturb

1c4) to cause to wander

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Genesis 4:12: "henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."
Genesis 4:14: "the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond"
Exodus 20:18: "smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off."
Numbers 32:13: "anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until"
Judges 9:9: "God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?"
Judges 9:11: "and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?"
Judges 9:13: "God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?"
1 Samuel 1:13: "her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli"
2 Samuel 15:20: "but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither"
2 Kings 19:21: "thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at"
2 Kings 23:18: "Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with"
Job 16:4: "in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at"
Job 28:4: "even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men."
Psalms 22:7: "me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,"
Psalms 59:11: "lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield."
Psalms 59:15: "Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied."
Psalms 107:27: "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end."
Psalms 109:10: "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places."
Psalms 109:10: "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places."
Psalms 109:25: "became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads."
Proverbs 5:6: "the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know"
Isaiah 6:4: "And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled"
Isaiah 7:2: "with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood"
Isaiah 7:2: "of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind."
Isaiah 19:1: "into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt"
Isaiah 24:20: "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy"
Isaiah 24:20: "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy"
Isaiah 29:9: "they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink."
Isaiah 37:22: "thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at"
Jeremiah 14:10: "people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD"
Lamentations 2:15: "clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter"
Lamentations 4:14: " They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch"
Lamentations 4:15: "when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more"
Daniel 10:10: "And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands."
Amos 4:8: "So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink"
Amos 8:12: " And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to"
Amos 9:9: "lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all"
Amos 9:9: "among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall"
Nahum 3:12: "with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater."
Zephaniah 2:15: "that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand."