Bible word study

Nuwd (Strong’s H5110): Meaning in the Bible

Nuwd (נוּד) is the Hebrew word numbered H5110 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt. In the King James Bible it is translated bemoan, flee, get, mourn, make to move.

• Original wordנוּד
• Transliterationnûwd
• Pronunciationnood
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH5110
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nuwd appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nuwd (H5110) stands behind 24 English renderings in 24 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (11), Psalms (3), Genesis (2).

How the King James Bible renders Nuwd, by count

• bemoan5 of 24 (21 percent)
• remove4 of 24 (17 percent)
• vagabond2 of 24 (8 percent)
• bemoaned1 of 24 (4 percent)
• bemoaning1 of 24 (4 percent)
• flee1 of 24 (4 percent)

Three places to read Nuwd

• Genesis 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
• Psalms 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Jeremiah 22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

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 Nuwd 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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