נוּסnûwç
flee, escape
Pronunciation: noos · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5127
Meanings
Qal: masculine plural, construct (Numbers 35:25; 2 Kings 9:3; 1 Samuel 4:16)
1. flee (Genesis 39:12; Genesis 39:15; Numbers 16:34)
2. escape (Amos 9:1; Jeremiah 46:6)
3. take flight, depart, disappear, only figurative (Deuteronomy 34:7; Song of Solomon 2:17; Song of Solomon 4:6)
4. fly, (to the attack) (Isaiah 30:16)
Po`lel: (compare Hiph`il 2) (Isaiah 59:19)
Hithpo`el: take flight (Psalms 60:6)
Hiph`il
1. put to flight (Deuteronomy 32:30)
2. drive hastily (Exodus 9:20)
3. cause to disappear, hide (Judges 6:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 159 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:10 As it happened, the valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits. And as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits, while the rest escaped into the mountains.
- Genesis 19:20 See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don’t you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”
- Genesis 39:12 She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away, but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from the house.
- Genesis 39:13 When she saw that she was holding his cloak and he had fled,
- Genesis 39:15 When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”
- Genesis 39:18 “But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”
See every passage
- Genesis 14:10, 19:20, 39:12, 39:13, 39:15, 39:18
- Exodus 4:3, 9:20, 14:25, 14:27, 21:13
- Leviticus 26:17, 26:36
- Numbers 10:35, 16:34, 35:6, 35:11, 35:15, 35:25, 35:26, 35:32
- Deuteronomy 4:42, 19:3, 19:4, 19:5, 19:11, 28:7, 28:25, 32:30, 34:7
- Joshua 7:4, 8:5, 8:6, 8:15, 8:20, 10:11, 10:16, 20:3, 20:4, 20:6, 20:9
- Judges 1:6, 4:15, 4:17, 6:11, 7:21, 7:22, 8:12, 9:21, 9:40, 9:51, 20:32, 20:45, 20:47
- 1 Samuel 4:10, 4:16, 4:17, 14:22, 17:24, 17:51, 19:8, 19:10, 30:17, 31:1, 31:7
- 2 Samuel 1:4, 4:4, 10:13, 10:14, 10:18, 13:29, 17:2, 18:3, 18:17, 19:3, 19:8, 23:11, 24:13
- 1 Kings 2:28, 2:29, 12:18, 20:20, 20:30
- 2 Kings 3:24, 7:7, 8:21, 9:3, 9:10, 9:23, 9:27, 14:12, 14:19
- 1 Chronicles 10:1, 10:7, 11:13, 19:14, 19:15, 19:18
- 2 Chronicles 10:18, 13:16, 14:12, 25:22, 25:27
- Psalms 68:1, 104:7, 114:3, 114:5
- Proverbs 28:1, 28:17
- Song of Solomon 2:17, 4:6
- Isaiah 10:3, 10:29, 13:14, 17:13, 20:6, 24:18, 30:16, 30:17, 31:8, 35:10, 51:11, 59:19
- Jeremiah 46:5, 46:6, 46:21, 48:6, 48:19, 48:44, 48:45, 49:8, 49:24, 49:30, 50:16, 50:28, 51:6
- Amos 2:16, 5:19, 9:1
- Nahum 2:8
- Zechariah 2:6, 14:5
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).