BDB5005
[נָדַף] verb drive, drive asunder ( Late Hebrew id., spread, be diffused, disseminated (of odour); Arabic [untranscribed source text 3190] strike, beat, especially bow-string with mallet, to clean cotton; also play the lyre; Aramaic נְדַף = Late Hebrew; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 3191] throw, hurl); —
Qal
Imperfect suffix יִדְּפֶנּוּ
Job 32:13
(jussive); 3 feminine singular suffix תִּדְּפֶנּוּ
Ps 1:4 2 masculine
singular תִּנְדֹּף
Ps 68:3 —
drive about, chaff, subject wind Ps 1:4 wicked, subject God Ps 68:3 (כְּהִנְדֹּף עָשָׁן, see below);
compare Job 32:13
(= defeat, anguish).
Niph`al
Perfect
נִדַּף
Isa 19:7
Infinitive. כְּהִנְדֹּף
Ps 68:3 (see
Köi. 306 f); Participle
נִדָּף
Lev 26:36 +
3 t.; — be driven, driven about (especially by wind) Ps 68:3, see above (like a driving [
Che
drift] of smoke); of breath (הֶבֶל) figurative of deceitful gain Prov 21:6 (
ᵐ5
Hi
Ew
רֹדֵף; see De
Now); of withered plant Isa 19:7 (where subject עָרוֺת,
מִוְרָע i.e. place; whence Che transitive ׳
נ
vanish; but reference probably to plant-life in these places, see Di); of leaf Lev 26:36 (as making slight sound), Job 13:25 (figurative of sufferer,
|| קַשׁ יָבֵשׁ), of chaff (קַשׁ) Isa 41:2 (simile of bow of hostile kings ||
עָפָר).