STRONGS NUMBER H5127


Word Summary
nus: to flee, escape
Original Word: נוּס
Transliteration: nus
Phonetic Spelling: (noos)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to flee, escape
Meaning: to flit, vanish away
Strong's Concordance
abate, away, be displayed, make to flee away put to flight, hide, lift up a standard

A primitive root; to flit, i.e. Vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver) -- X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5127. nus

נוּס160 verb flee, escape (Syriac tremble (rare), compare Brock; Arabic move to and fro, be in commotion, dangle, Lane2866); —

Qal Perfect נָסNumbers 35:25 +; נַ֫סְתָּה2 Kings 9:3; נַ֫סְתִּי1 Samuel 4:16, etc.; Imperfect יָנוּסExodus 21:13 +; וַיָּנָ֫סGenesis 39:12 +; יְנוּס֑וּןPsalm 104:7, etc.; Imperative masculine plural נֻ֫סוּJeremiah 48:6 4t. Jeremiah, Zechariah; Infinitive absolute נוֺס2 Samuel 18:3; construct לָנוּס‎ (לָנֻס‎) Genesis 19:20 +; Participle נָסAmos 9:1 +; נָסִיםExodus 14:27 +; —

1 flee, absolute Genesis 39:12, 15; Numbers 16:34 (all J); Joshua 10:16 (JE); Leviticus 26:17, 36; (H); figurative of sea Psalm 114:3; 114:5; compare 104:7; followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb מָנוֺסJeremiah 46:5, followed by דֶּרֶךְJoshua 8:15 (J), 2 Kings 9:27; followed by בְּדֶרֶךְDeuteronomy 28:7, 25; ׳נ אֶלנַֿפְשָׁם2 Kings 7:7 flee for their life, ׳נ בְּרַגְלָיו‎, Judges 4:15 flee on foot; + 44 t. absolute (not elsewhere Hexateuch); followed by אֶלֿ‎ location Deuteronomy 4:42; 19:5, 11 (D), Numbers 35:32; Joshua 20:4 (both P), Judges 4:17; 1 Kings 2:28-29, Isaiah 13:14; followed by לְ1 Samuel 4:10 6t. + לִקְרָאתוֺExodus 14:27 (E; not elsewhere Hexateuch); followed by עַדJudges 7:22 + Proverbs 28:17 (עַדבּֿוֺר‎, see בּוֺר‎); followed by עַלֿIsaiah 10:3; followed by ָ ה‎ locative Genesis 14:10 4t. J E, Numbers 35:6 6t. P, Deuteronomy 4:42; 19:3-4, (D), + 6 t.; followed by שָׁםIsaiah 20:6; followed by accusative of location Joshua 8:20 (J), + 4 t.; followed by מִמֶּרְחָקIsaiah 17:13 = far away; followed by מִן‎ from, Joshua 20:6 (P), 1 Samuel 4:16 3t.; מִתּוֺךְJeremiah 51:6; especially מִמְּנֵיfrom before Exodus 4:3; 14:25; Numbers 10:35; Joshua 10:11 (all J E), 1 Samuel 17:24; Jeremiah 48:44 (Qr הַנָּס‎, > Kt הניס‎), + 19 t.; followed by לִפְנֵיJoshua 7:4; 8:5 (twice in verse); 8:6 (all J), 1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 24:13, מִלִּפְנֵי1 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 (לֵחֹהvigour) was not gone ("" עינו כָֽהֲתָה לֹא‎); of shadows (at evening), Song of Solomon 2:17; 4:6; of sorrow etc. Isaiah 35:10; 51:11.

4 ׳נ עַלסֿוּסIsaiah 30:16 fly (to the attack) on horseback.

Po`lel Perfect Isaiah 59:19 י ׳רוּחַ בּוֺ נֹסֲסָהthe breath of ׳יdriveth at it, driveth it on (compare Hiph`il 2).

Hithpo`l. Infinitive construct מִמְּנֵי לְהִתְנוֺסֵסPsalm 60:6 in order to take flight before the bow (so Vrss Hup-Now Che Bae and others).

Hiph`il Perfect הֵנִיסExodus 9:20; Imperfect יָנִיסוּDeuteronomy 32:30 + Judges 7:21 Kt (Qr וַיָּנוּסוּ

Qal); Infinitive construct לְתָנִיסJudges 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 מִמְּנֵי‎.