H5095. nahal
[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. Che[Psa 23:2]. critical note.); —
Pi`el Perfect2masculine singular נֵהַלָתָּ [Exod 15:13]; Imperfect3masculine singular יְנַהֵל [Isa 40:11]; suffix יְנַהֲלֵנִי [Psa 23:2], יְנַהְלֵם [Isa 49:10]; וַיְנַהֲלֵם [Gen 47:17]; [2Chr 32:22]; [2] masculine singular suffix תְּנַהֲלֵנִי [Psa 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), [Psa 23:2] (with עַלֿ location; || הִרְבִּיץ), [Isa 40:11] (|| קִבֵּץ רעה,).
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, לָהּ מְנַהֵל אֵין [Isa 51:18] there is no one to be a guide for her, i.e. for Jerusalem, drunk with cup of ׳יs fury (|| בְּיָדָהּ מַחֲזִיק); ׳י subject [Psa 31:4] lead me (|| תַּנְחֵנִי). 4. give rest to (?) ׳וַיְנ מִסָּבִיב[2Chr 32:22] and he gave them rest on every hand, compare ᵑ9 ᵐ5 (= מִסּ לָהֶם ׳וַיָּנִח 1 Chronicles 2, 18 +, probably so read here, see Be DHM Öttli).
5 refresh with food, בַּלֶּחֶם ׳וַיְנ [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