be willing
na.dav describes a voluntary response: a heart moved to give, offer oneself, or undertake a needed contribution.
The dominant usage describes people freely offering themselves or material gifts for the LORD and communal needs. A smaller Qal cluster presents the inward movement of heart or spirit that leads people to bring a contribution.
Senses in use
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Freely offering oneself or a gift · dominant
In 1 Chronicles 29:6, the sequential imperfect describes leaders who offered themselves in response to the appeal for work; in 1 Chronicles 29:17, the perfect and infinitive occur in a statement about offering possessions and seeing the people offer with joy. The participles in Judges 5:9 and Nehemiah 11:2 identify persons characterized by this voluntary response, respectively among the people and in dwelling in Jerusalem.
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A heart or spirit moved to bring a contribution · occasional
In Exodus 25:2, the Qal imperfect stands in the condition concerning each man whose heart moves him before a contribution is taken. In Exodus 35:21 and Exodus 35:29, Qal perfect forms occur with people whose heart or spirit moved them to bring what was needed for the tent of meeting and the commanded work.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the Hithpael occurrences with “willingly,” “freely,” or “volunteered,” while the Qal clauses in Exodus are rendered as a heart or spirit being “moved.” These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed equivalents for each form.