Lexical Summary nahal: to lead or guide to a watering place, bring to a place of rest, refresh Original Word: נָהַלTransliteration: nahal Phonetic Spelling: (naw-hal') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to lead or guide to a watering place, bring to a place of rest, refresh Meaning: to lead or guide to a watering place, bring to a place of rest, refresh Strong's Concordance carry, feed, guide, lead gently, on A primitive root; properly, to run with a sparkle, i.e. Flow; hence (transitively), to conduct, and (by inference) to protect, sustain -- carry, feed, guide, lead (gently, on). Brown-Driver-Briggs H5095. nahal [נָהַל] verb Pi`el lead, guide to a watering-place or station, and cause to rest there; bring to a station or place of rest; lead, guide; refresh (compare Arabic watering-place, take a first drink; likewise (Dozy) station, stage of the road; perhaps also Assyrian Nâlu, lie down DlHWB 438; DlHA 5f.; Prol. 17 ff. tries to explain all the passages from this Assyrian nâlu; against him see PräLOPh i. 195 CheAcad., April 12, 1884 DHMZKF i. 357 f. NöZMG xi. 1886, 728; two √ √ proposed by RDWilsonPresb. Rev. (N.Y.), April, 1885 (careful article), compare T. ChePsalm 23:2. critical note.); — Pi`el Perfect2masculine singular נֵהַלָתָּ Exodus 15:13; Imperfect3masculine singular יְנַהֵל Isaiah 40:11; suffix יְנַהֲלֵנִי Psalm 23:2, יְנַהְלֵם Isaiah 49:10; וַיְנַהֲלֵם Genesis 47:17; 2 Chronicles 32:22; 2 masculine singular suffix תְּנַהֲלֵנִי Psalm 31:4; 3masculine plural suffix וַיְנַהֲלוּם2 Chronicles 28:15; Participle מְנַהֵל Isaiah 51:18; — 1 lead to watering-place (or station), and cause to rest there, subject ׳י as shepherd, Isaiah 49:10 (עַלֿ location; "" נהג), Psalm 23:2 (with עַלֿ location; "" הִרְבִּיץ), Isaiah 40:11 ("" קִבֵּץ רעה,). 2 lead or bring to a station, a goal, ׳י subject Exodus 15:13 (song; no object expressed, אֶלֿ location; "" נחה); human subject 2 Chronicles 28:15 and they conducted all the feeble of them by means of (ב) asses ("" הֵבִיא). 3 lead, guide: figurative, לָהּ מְנַהֵל אֵין Isaiah 51:18 there is no one to be a guide for her, i.e. for Jerusalem, drunk with cup of ׳יs fury ("" בְּיָדָהּ מַחֲזִיק); ׳י subject Psalm 31:4 lead me ("" תַּנְחֵנִי). 4. give rest to (?) ׳וַיְנ מִסָּבִיב2 Chronicles 32:22 and he gave them rest on every hand, compare ᵑ9 ᵐ5 (= מִסּ לָהֶם ׳וַיָּנִח 1 Chronicles 2, 18 +, probably so read here, see Be DHM Öttli). 5 refresh with food, בַּלֶּחֶם ׳וַיְנ Genesis 47:17 (J). Hithpa`el Imperfect probably journey by stations, stages, only 1 singular אֶתְנַהֲלָה Genesis 33:14 (J), I will proceed, journey on, by stages (i.e. deliberately with family and cattle). נַהֲלָל see II. נַהֲלֹל. below |
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