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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 160 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 salt valley consists of slime-pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrha, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Behold this city is near for me to escape thither, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - And she caught hold of him by his clothes, and said, Lie with me; and having left his clothes in her hands, he fled, and went forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13 - And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his clothes in her hands, and fled, and gone forth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, having left his clothes with me, he fled, and went forth out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, having left his clothes with me, he fled and departed forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - And he said, Cast it on the ground: and he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:20 - He of the servants of Pharao that feared the word of the Lord, gathered his cattle into the houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - and bound the axle-trees of their chariots, and caused them to go with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the water returned to its place toward day; and the Egyptians fled [fn]from the water, and the Lord shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give thee a place whither the slayer may flee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - And I will set my face against you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and ye shall flee, no one pursuing you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - (LXX 10:34) And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered: let all that hate thee flee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for [fn]they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - And ye shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, every one who has [fn]killed another unintentionally.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee thither who has killed a man unintentionally.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - Ye shall not accept a ransom to excuse his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that the slayer might flee thither, who should have slain his neighbour unintentionally, and should not have hated him [fn]in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - Take a survey of thy way, and thou shalt divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God apportions to thee, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not [fn]in times past.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - And whosoever shall enter with his neighbour into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - The Lord deliver thine enemies that withstand thee utterly broken before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - The Lord give thee up for slaughter before thine enemies: thou shalt go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and thou shalt be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How [fn]should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - And I and all with me will draw near to the city: and it shall come to pass when the inhabitants of Gai shall come forth to meet us, as before, that we will flee from before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - And Joshua and Israel saw, and retreated from before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - And when the inhabitants of Gai looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - And when they fled from the face of the children of Israel at the descent of Oronin, then the Lord cast upon them hailstones from heaven to Azeca; and they were more that died by the hailstones, than those whom the children of Israel slew with the sword in the battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 - And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave that is in Makeda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - Even a refuge to the slayer who has smitten a [fn]man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities selected for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger abiding among them, that every one who smites a soul unintentionally should flee thither, that he should not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he should stand before the congregation for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barac: and Sisara descended from off his chariot, and fled on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - And Sisara fled on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Chaber the Kenite his friend: for there was peace between Jabin king of Asor and the house of Chaber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ephratha in the land of Joas father of Esdri; and Gedeon his son was threshing wheat in a wine-press in order to escape from the face of Madiam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - And every man stood in his place round about the host; and all the host ran, and sounded an alarm, and fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And they sounded with the three hundred horns; and the Lord set every man's sword in all the host against his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And Zebee and Salmana fled; and he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Madiam, Zebee and Salmana, and discomfited all the army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - And Joatham fled, and ran away, and went as far as Bæer, and dwelt there out of the way of his brother Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - And Abimelech pursued him, and he fled from before him; and many fell down slain as far as the door of the gate.

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