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נָוָה

na.vah

to dwell

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Strong’s H5115bVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

he stays at home1

In the text

Habakkuk 2:5יִנְוֶה
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[נָוָה] vb. denom. dwell, abide;—only Qal Hb 2:5

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.