What does נוּף · תְּנוּפָה mean in the Bible?
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Hebrew · H5130, H8573
לְהָנִיף תְּנוּפָה
To quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.) · a brandishing (in threat); by implication, tumult ; specifically, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings
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נוּף H5130 to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Pronunciation nûp̄
Fundamental motion of repetitive back-and-forth movement; applied to ritual waving of offerings before God, beckoning, striking, and sprinkling.
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תְּנוּפָה H8573 a brandishing (in threat); by implication, tumult ; specifically, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings
Pronunciation tĕnûpāh
Ritualized lifting or waving gesture that consecrates sacrificial offerings to God within covenant worship
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What does לְהָנִיף תְּנוּפָה (lĕhānîp̄ tĕnûp̄āh) mean in the Bible?
נוּף · תְּנוּפָה is a Hebrew phrase meaning "to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H5130, H8573?
H5130, H8573 is connected to 67 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Source Gloss
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Grammatical Forms
How the stem changes the meaning of this verb across the biblical text.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 4 Aligned forms 14
Hiphil causative active — the subject causes someone else to perform the action 11×
Perfect Exod 35:22 · Josh 8:31 · Lev 9:21 · Exod 20:25 · Job 31:21 5×
Imperfect Deut 23:26 · Deut 27:5 · Ps 68:10 3×
Participle active Isa 19:16 · Zech 2:13 2×
Sequential imperfect Isa 13:2 1×
Hophal causative passive — the subject is caused to perform the action 1×
Perfect Exod 29:27 1×
Polel 1×
Imperfect Isa 10:32 1×
Qal basic active stem — the word in its most common, direct sense 1×
Perfect Prov 7:17 1×
Word Origins
לְהָנִיף תְּנוּפָה is a primitive root - no further derivation.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain