[נָהַל] verb Pi`el lead, guide to a watering-place or station, and cause to rest there; bring to a station or place of rest; lead, guide; refresh (compare Arabic watering-place, take a first drink; likewise (Dozy) station, stage of the road; perhaps also Assyrian Nâlu, lie down DlHWB 438; DlHA 5f.; Prol. 17 ff. tries to explain all the passages from this Assyrian nâlu; against him see PräLOPh i. 195 CheAcad., April 12,1884 DHMZKF i. 357 f. NöZMG xi. 1886, 728; two √ √ proposed by RDWilsonPresb. Rev. (N.Y.), April, 1885 (careful article), compare T. ChePsalm 23:2. critical note.); —
Pi`el Perfect 2 masculine singular נֵהַלָתָּ [Exod 15:13] Imperfect 3 masculine singular יְנַהֵל [Isa 40:11] suffix יְנַהֲלֵנִי [Ps 23:2], יְנַהְלֵם [Isa 49:10] וַיְנַהֲלֵם [Gen 47:17]; [2Chr 32:22] 2 masculine singular suffix תְּנַהֲלֵנִי [Ps 31:4] 3 masculine plural suffix וַיְנַהֲלוּם [2Chr 28:15] Participle מְנַהֵל [Isa 51:18] —
1. lead to watering-place (or station), and cause to rest there, subject ׳י as shepherd, [Isa 49:10] (עַלֿ location; || נהג), [Ps 23:2] (with עַלֿ location; || הִרְבִּיץ), [Isa 40:11] (|| רעה, קִבֵּץ).
2. lead or bring to a station, a goal, ׳י subject [Exod 15:13] (song; no object expressed, אֶלֿ location; || נחה); human subject [2Chr 28:15] and they conducted all the feeble of them by means of (ב) asses (|| הֵבִיא).
3. lead, guide: figurative, אֵין מְנַהֵל לָהּ [Isa 51:18] there is no one to be a guide for her, i.e. for Jerusalem, drunk with cup of ׳י's fury (|| מַחֲזִיק בְּיָדָהּ); ׳י subject [Ps 31:4] lead me (|| תַּנְחֵנִי). 4. give rest to (?) מִסָּבִיב ׳וַיְנ [2Chr 32:22] and he gave them rest on every hand, compare ᵐ5 ᵑ9 (= ׳וַיָּנִח לָהֶם מִסּ +, probably so read here, see Be DHM Öttli).
5. refresh with food, ׳וַיְנ בַּלֶּחֶם [Gen 47:17] (J).
Hithpa`el Imperfect probably journey by stations, stages, only 1 singular אֶתְנַהֲלָה [Gen 33:14] (J), I will proceed, journey on, by stages (i.e. deliberately with family and cattle).
נַהֲלָל see II. נַהֲלֹל. below
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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