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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 upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5128 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- continually, fugitive, [idiom] 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).
- Grammar
- נ֣וֹעַ — verb Qal, infinitive absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 42 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:12Genesis 4:14Exodus 20:18Numbers 32:13Judges 9:9
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נוּעַ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.