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Lexicon :: Strong's H5127 - nûs

Aa
נוּס
Transliteration
nûs
Pronunciation
noos
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1327

Strong’s Definitions

נוּס nûwç, noos; a primitive root; to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver):—× abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, × hide, lift up a standard.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x

The KJV translates Strong's H5127 in the following manner: flee (142x), flee away (12x), abated (1x), displayed (1x), flight (1x), hide (1x), flee out (1x), lift up a standard (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x
The KJV translates Strong's H5127 in the following manner: flee (142x), flee away (12x), abated (1x), displayed (1x), flight (1x), hide (1x), flee out (1x), lift up a standard (1x), variant (1x).

  1. to flee, escape

    1. (Qal)

      1. to flee

      2. to escape

      3. to take flight,m depart, disappear

      4. to fly (to the attack) on horseback

    2. (Polel) to drive at

    3. (Hithpolel) to take flight

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to put to flight

      2. to drive hastily

      3. to cause to disappear, hide

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נוּס nûwç, noos; a primitive root; to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver):—× abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, × hide, lift up a standard.
STRONGS H5127: Abbreviations
נוּס 160 verb flee, escape (Syriac bdb063008 tremble (rare), compare Brock; Arabic bdb063009 move to and fro, be in commotion, dangle, Lane2866); —
Qal Perfect נָס Numbers 35:25 +; נַ֫סְתָּה 2 Kings 9:3; נַ֫סְתִּי 1 Samuel 4:16, etc.; Imperfect יָנוּס Exodus 21:13 +; וַיָּנָ֫ס Genesis 39:12 +; יְנוּס֑וּן Psalm 104:7, etc.; Imperative masculine plural נֻ֫סוּ Jeremiah 48:6 + 4 times Jeremiah, Zechariah; Infinitive absolute נוֺס 2 Samuel 18:3; construct לָנוּס (לָנֻס) Genesis 19:20 +; Participle נָס Amos 9:1 +; נָסִים Exodus 14:27 +; —
1. flee, absolute Genesis 39:12, Genesis 39:15; Numbers 16:34 (all J); Joshua 10:16 (JE); Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:36; (H); figurative of sea Psalm 114:3; Psalm 114:5; compare Psalm 104:7; followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb מָנוֺס Jeremiah 46:5, followed by דֶּרֶךְ Joshua 8:15 (J), 2 Kings 9:27; followed by בְּדֶרֶךְ Deuteronomy 28:7, Deuteronomy 28:25; אֶלנַֿפְשָׁם נ׳ 2 Kings 7:7 flee for their life, בְּרַגְלָיו נ׳, Judges 4:15 flee on foot; + 44 times absolute (not elsewhere Hexateuch); followed by אֶלֿ location Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 19:5, Deuteronomy 19:11 (D), Numbers 35:32; Joshua 20:4 (both P), Judges 4:17; 1 Kings 2:28, 1 Kings 2:29; Isaiah 13:14; followed by לְ 1 Samuel 4:10 + 6 times + לִקְרָאתוֺ Exodus 14:27 (E; not elsewhere Hexateuch); followed by עַד Judges 7:22 + Proverbs 28:17 (עַדבּֿוֺר, see בּוֺר); followed by עַלֿ Isaiah 10:3; followed by ָ  ה locative Genesis 14:10 + 4 times J E, Numbers 35:6 + 6 times P, Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 19:3, Deuteronomy 19:4 (D), + 6 times; followed by שָׁם Isaiah 20:6; followed by accusative of location Joshua 8:20 (J), + 4 times; followed by מִמֶּרְחָק Isaiah 17:13 = far away; followed by מִן from, Joshua 20:6 (P), 1 Samuel 4:16 + 3 times; מִתּוֺךְ Jeremiah 51:6; especially מִפְּנֵי from before Exodus 4:3; Exodus 14:25; Numbers 10:35; Joshua 10:11 (all J E), 1 Samuel 17:24; [H5211 Jeremiah 48:44] (Qr הַנָּס, > Kt הניס), + 19 times; followed by לִפְנֵי Joshua 7:4; Joshua 8:5 (twice in verse); Joshua 8:6 (all J), 1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 24:13, מִלִּפְנֵי 1 Chronicles 19:18.
2. escape Amos 9:1 (|| נמלט) so Jeremiah 46:6; hence
3. take flight, depart, disappear, only figurative; Deuteronomy 34:7 (JE) his freshness (לֵחֹה vigour) was not gone (|| לֹא כָֽהֲתָה עינו); of shadows (at evening), Songs 2:17; Songs 4:6; of sorrow etc. Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 51:11.
4. עַלסֿוּס נ׳ Isaiah 30:16 fly (to the attack) on horseback.
† Po`lel Perfect Isaiah 59:19 נֹסֲסָה בּוֺ רוּחַ י׳ the breath of י׳ driveth at it, driveth it on (compare Hiph. 2).
† Hithpo`l. Infinitive construct לְהִתְנוֺסֵס מִפְּנֵי Psalm 60:6 [Psalm 60:4] in order to take flight before the bow (so Vrss Hup-Now Che Bae and others).
† Hiph. Perfect הֵנִיס Exodus 9:20; Imperfect יָנִיסוּ Deuteronomy 32:30 + Judges 7:21 Kt (Qr וַיָּנוּסוּ Qal); Infinitive construct לְתָנִיס Judges 6:11; —
1. put to flight, followed by accusative Deuteronomy 32:30 (|| רדף).
2. drive hastily to a safe place Exodus 9:20, followed by accusative + אֶלֿ.
3. cause to disappear, hide Judges 6:11 (no object expressed) followed by מִפְּנֵי.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:10; 19:20; 39:12; 39:12; 39:15

Exodus

4:3; 9:20; 9:20; 14:25; 14:27; 14:27; 21:13

Leviticus

26:17; 26:36

Numbers

10:35; 16:34; 35:6; 35:25; 35:32

Deuteronomy

4:42; 4:42; 19:3; 19:4; 19:5; 19:11; 28:7; 28:25; 32:30; 32:30; 34:7

Joshua

7:4; 8:5; 8:6; 8:15; 8:20; 10:11; 10:16; 20:4; 20:6

Judges

4:15; 4:17; 6:11; 6:11; 7:21; 7:22

1 Samuel

4:10; 4:16; 4:16; 4:17; 17:24

2 Samuel

18:3; 24:13

1 Kings

2:28; 2:29

2 Kings

7:7; 9:3; 9:27

1 Chronicles

19:18

Psalms

60:4; 104:7; 104:7; 114:3; 114:5

Proverbs

28:17

Song of Songs

2:17; 4:6

Isaiah

10:3; 13:14; 17:13; 20:6; 30:16; 35:10; 51:11; 59:19

Jeremiah

46:5; 46:6; 48:6; 51:6

Amos

9:1; 9:1

H5127

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5127 matches the Hebrew נוּס (nûs),
which occurs 161 times in 143 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 14:10–Jdg 9:40)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13 - And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - And hearing it he went running out without his coat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:20 - Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 - But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:4 - And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:6 - And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.

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