נוּץnûwts
fly (?)
Pronunciation: noots · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5132
Meanings
Qal: text very dubious; read perhapsנָ֫דוּ (Lamentations 4:15; Genesis 4:12; Genesis 4:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down to the grove of walnut trees and out to the valley to see the new spring growth, to see whether the grapevines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.
- Song of Solomon 7:12 Let us get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded, if the blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.
- Lamentations 4:15 “Get away!” the people shouted at them. “You’re defiled! Don’t touch us!” So they fled to distant lands and wandered among foreign nations, but none would let them stay.
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).