Bible word study

Nahag (Strong’s H5090): Meaning in the Bible

Nahag (נָהַג) is the Hebrew word numbered H5090 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to drive forth (a person, an animal or chariot), i.e. lead, carry away; reflexively, to proceed (i.e. impel or guide oneself); also (from the panting induced by effort), to sigh. In the King James Bible it is translated acquaint, bring (away), carry away, drive (away), lead (away.

• Original wordנָהַג
• Transliterationnâhag
• Pronunciationnaw-hag'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH5090
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nahag appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nahag (H5090) stands behind 31 English renderings in 31 verses across 15 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (5), 1 Samuel (4), Psalms (4).

How the King James Bible renders Nahag, by count

• away7 of 31 (23 percent)
• lead7 of 31 (23 percent)
• drave4 of 31 (13 percent)
• brought2 of 31 (6 percent)
• forth2 of 31 (6 percent)
• led2 of 31 (6 percent)

Three places to read Nahag

• Genesis 31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
• 1 Samuel 30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
• Psalms 78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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 Nahag 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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