to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.)
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַתָּ֤נַח
nuwach
to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.)
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 67 · 2.18/10k
Senses
Attestations
- וַ/תָּ֤נַח Genesis 8:4 (BHS)
- וַ/יָּ֕נַח Exodus 10:14 (BHS)
- יָנִ֛יחַ Exodus 17:11 (BHS)
- וַ/יָּ֖נַח Exodus 20:11 (BHS)
- יָנ֗וּחַ Exodus 23:12 (BHS)
- וַ/הֲנִחֹ֥תִי Exodus 33:14 (BHS)
6 of 67 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.