Nuwa (נוּעַ, Strong's H5128) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined). The King James Bible translates it as continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).

What is the Strong's number for Nuwa?

The Strong's number for Nuwa (נוּעַ) is H5128. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Nuwa (Strong’s H5128): Meaning in the Bible

Nuwa (נוּעַ) is the Hebrew word numbered H5128 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined). In the King James Bible it is translated continually, fugitive, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able.

נוּעַ

nûwaʻ · Hebrew

Strong’s H5128 · noo'-ah

Original wordנוּעַ
Transliterationnûwaʻ
Pronunciationnoo'-ah
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH5128
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Nuwa appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nuwa (H5128) stands behind 40 English renderings in 36 verses across 17 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (8), Psalms (7), Amos (4).

How the King James Bible renders Nuwa, by count

moved5 of 40 (12 percent)
promoted3 of 40 (8 percent)
shaken3 of 40 (8 percent)
wander3 of 40 (8 percent)
wandered3 of 40 (8 percent)
down2 of 40 (5 percent)

Three places to read Nuwa

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.
Job 28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Isaiah 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

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 Nuwa 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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