Bible word study

Nadach (Strong’s H5080): Meaning in the Bible

Nadach (נָדַח) is the Hebrew word numbered H5080 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated banish, bring, cast down (out), chase, compel.

• Original wordנָדַח
• Transliterationnâdach
• Pronunciationnaw-dakh'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH5080
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nadach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nadach (H5080) stands behind 52 English renderings in 51 verses across 15 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (18), Deuteronomy (10), Isaiah (5).

How the King James Bible renders Nadach, by count

• driven14 of 52 (27 percent)
• out9 of 52 (17 percent)
• away6 of 52 (12 percent)
• outcasts4 of 52 (8 percent)
• drive3 of 52 (6 percent)
• banished2 of 52 (4 percent)

Three places to read Nadach

• Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
• Job 6:13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
• Jeremiah 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Nadach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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