Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to refuse, forbid, dissuade, or neutralize
KJV Usage: break, disallow, discourage, make of none effect
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נוּא (nu) — to forbid. 1) to hinder, hold back, forbid, disallow, restrain, frustrate 1a) (Qal) to hinder, hold back 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to restrain, forbid, frustrate 1b2) to restrain, make averse, discourage
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · תְּנוּאָה
Unwilling | verb hif
to forbid, to hinder, to refuse = causative action by which humans use their influence or authority to keep something from happening
NUM 30:6 · NUM 30:6 · NUM 30:9 · NUM 30:12 · NUM 32:7 · NUM 32:9 · PSA 141:5
Fail | verb hif | ≈ פור
to cause to fail, to frustrate = causative action by which deities cause the plans humans not to succeed
1 NUM 32:7 MT-K תנואון | MT-Q תְנִיאוּן
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[נוא] vb. hinder, restrain, frustrate Qal but read Hiph.
Hiph. restrain, forbid (performance of vow); frustrate (device of people); refuse
refrain, make averse the heart
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