נָהַג
na.hag
to lead
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word, na.hag (H5090A), primarily conveys the concept of guiding or leading someone or something from one place to another. This action of movement encompasses various aspects of travel, whether it be physically moving individuals or groups, or even navigating through abstract or spiritual paths. The 30 occurrences of na.hag in the Bible demonstrate its significance in the lives of God's people, highlighting the importance of leadership and direction. The range of its usage is quite extensive, encompassing various social contexts and relational dynamics. It is associated with leaders guiding their followers, parents shepherding their children, and even God guiding His people through their journeys. This suggests that na.hag goes beyond mere physical movement and encompasses a deeper sense of direction and purpose. Considering its multiple appearances throughout the Bible, it is essential to recognize the weight of this concept in Jewish and biblical thought. The emphasis on leadership and guidance underscores the significance of na.hag in daily life, from personal relationships to collective journeys.
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Occurrences in Scripture
30 total occurrences across the text
Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.
Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Psalms 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
Psalms 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
Psalms 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 80:1Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Song of Solomon 8:2I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Isaiah 11:6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 20:4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
Isaiah 60:11Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
Isaiah 63:14As the livestock that go down into the valley, Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
Lamentations 3:2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Genesis 31:18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:26Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Exodus 3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
Exodus 10:13Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Exodus 14:25He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
Deuteronomy 4:27Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
1 Samuel 23:5David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 30:2and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
1 Samuel 30:20David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
1 Samuel 30:22Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”
2 Samuel 6:3They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
2 Kings 4:24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
2 Kings 9:20The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
1 Chronicles 13:7They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
1 Chronicles 20:1At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.