Bible word study

Nuwph (Strong’s H5130): Meaning in the Bible

Nuwph (נוּף) is the Hebrew word numbered H5130 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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.). In the King James Bible it is translated lift up, move, offer, perfume, send.

• Original wordנוּף
• Transliterationnûwph
• Pronunciationnoof
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH5130
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nuwph appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nuwph (H5130) stands behind 37 English renderings in 35 verses across 11 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Leviticus (11), Isaiah (7), Numbers (6).

How the King James Bible renders Nuwph, by count

• wave11 of 37 (30 percent)
• shake5 of 37 (14 percent)
• waved5 of 37 (14 percent)
• up4 of 37 (11 percent)
• offer3 of 37 (8 percent)
• offered2 of 37 (5 percent)

Three places to read Nuwph

• Exodus 20:25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
• Leviticus 14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
• Joshua 8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

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 Nuwph 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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