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Lexicon :: Strong's H5127 - nûs

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נוּס
Transliteration
nûs
Pronunciation
noos
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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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 bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13 - And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:20 - Then whoever feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - clogging[fn] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw[fn] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - You shall measure the distances[fn] and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - “This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the LORD had given them up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 - These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:4 - He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:6 - And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah,[fn] as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.

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