- נָדַח
- נָדַח(b. h.) to slip, move away. Nif. נִדַּח 1) (interch. with דחה) to be banished, exiled. Y.Snh.X, 29c top (ref. to Is. 27:13) והנִידָּחִים … זו דורוכ׳ ‘those who were exiles in the land of Egypt means the generation of the wilderness. Midr. Till. to Ps. 147:2 שנִדְּחוּ (or שנִדְחוּ); a. e. 2) to be made to slip, to be led away (to idolatry); עיר הנִדַּחַת the case of a place whose inhabitants were led astray, the condemned town (Deut. 13:13 to 18). Snh.X, 4 אנשי עיר הנ׳ the inhabitants of a condemned city. Tosef. ib. XIV, 1, a. e. עיר הנ׳ לא היתהוכ׳ a case of a condemned city never occurred nor ever will occur. Ib. אין עושין שלש עיירות נִידָּחוֹתוכ׳ three cities dare not be condemned (at a time) in Palestine; Yalk. Deut. 886 מְנוּדָּחוֹת (Pu.); a. fr. Hif. הִדִּיחַ to lead astray. Snh.VII, 10 המַדִּיחַ זה האימרוכ׳ a maddiaḥ (amenable to the law Deut. l. c.) is he who says, let us go and worship ; contrad. to מסית; ib. 67a מַדִּיחֵי עיר הנדחת שנו כאן the seducers of a condemned city are meant here. Ib. נביא שה׳ a prophet that led a town astray. Ib. X, 4 (111b) הִדִּיחוּהָ נשים if women led a town astray; היו מַדִּיחֶיהָ חוצה לה if the seducers were outsiders; עד שיַדִּיחוּהָ אנשים unless the seducers are men; a. fr. Hof. הוּדָּח 1) to be led astray. Ib. ה׳ מיעוטה if a minority of the town was led astray. Tosef. ib. XIV, 3 הוּדְּחוּ עמה they were led astray along with the inhabitants; a. e. 2) (interch. with דָּחָה) to be banished. Yalk. Num. 739 הוּדַּחְתִּי מן האהל I have been banished from the Tabernacle.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.