1. נוּף
move to and fro, wave, besprinkle
The corpus record — Hebrew
הֵנַ֥פְתָּ
nuwph · vb
move to and fro, wave, besprinkle
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 37 · 1.21/10k
Senses
2. נוּף
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Attestations
- הֵנַ֥פְתָּ Exodus 20:25 (BHS)
- וְ/הֵנַפְתָּ֥ Exodus 29:24 (BHS)
- וְ/הֵנַפְתָּ֥ Exodus 29:26 (BHS)
- הוּנַ֖ף Exodus 29:27 (BHS)
- הֵנִ֛יף Exodus 35:22 (BHS)
- לְ/הָנִ֥יף Leviticus 7:30 (BHS)
6 of 37 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.