to wander
na.dad describes moving away—fleeing, roaming without a settled place, or being driven out.
The term most often marks movement away in flight or departure, including people fleeing danger and sleep leaving a person. Its participial uses portray persons or birds as unsettled wanderers, while passive and causative forms show removal or driving away.
Senses in use
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Fleeing or departing from a place · dominant
Qal perfect and sequential-imperfect forms occur where something or someone moves away: in Genesis 31:40 the APB renders sleep as having “fled” from the speaker’s eyes, and in Isaiah 21:15 it renders people as having “wandered” from swords and battle. Isaiah 10:31, Isaiah 22:3, Isaiah 33:3, and Jeremiah 4:25 likewise place the forms in scenes of inhabitants, chiefs, peoples, or birds fleeing.
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Roaming as an unsettled wanderer · common
Qal active participles depict an ongoing condition of being away from a settled place. In Hosea 9:17 the APB renders the people as “wanderers among the nations”; in Job 15:23 it renders a man seeking food as he “wanders”; and in Proverbs 27:8 it compares a bird leaving its nest with a man leaving his home. Isaiah 16:2, Isaiah 16:3, Isaiah 21:14, and Jeremiah 49:5 similarly place the participle with a wandering bird, a banished person, a traveler needing food, or one whom no one gathers.
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Being driven or thrust away · occasional
Non-Qal forms show removal imposed on someone or something. In 2 Samuel 23:6 the APB renders the passive participle in the comparison of Belial with a thorn “driven away”; in Job 18:18 a Hiphil imperfect is in the clause “drive him from the world”; and Job 20:8 uses a Hophal imperfect where a vision-like figure is “driven away.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB uses “fled,” “wandered,” “wanderers,” “strays,” and “driven away.” These renderings reflect the verses’ movement-away contexts, but the translation does not identify a fixed English equivalent for each Hebrew form.