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Hebrew verb · H5127

נוּס

nusnoos

to flee

159 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nûwç

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5127is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 101
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5127

to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)

The King James renders it: [idiom] abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, [idiom] hide, lift up a standard.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nus is rendered "to flee". It stands 159 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Sixteen of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:10Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
  • The Greek text spells it 101 different ways.

The first use

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Genesis 14:10וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and they fled31
  • and he fled16
  • to flee13
  • he will flee7
  • they will flee6
  • and it fled5
  • flee5
  • they fled5
  • and he will flee4
  • and they will flee4
  • and you will flee4
  • he fled4

and 35 more, 159 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 159, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

101 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּ8
  • וַיָּ֥נָס5
  • וַיָּ֣נָס5
  • לָנ֖וּס5
  • נָ֣ס5
  • נָ֖סוּ5
  • וַיָּ֖נָס4
  • וַיָּנֻ֙סוּ֙3
  • וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃3
  • וְנָ֖סוּ3
  • יָנ֥וּס3
  • לָנ֥וּס3

and 89 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3mp30Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms22Hc/Vqw3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)13HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular13HVqp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural11HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vqq3ms7Hc/Vqq3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural5HVqrmpa
  • Hc/Vqq3cp4Hc/Vqq3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural4HVqv2mp
  • Hc/Vqq2mp3Hc/Vqq2mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HTd/Vqrmsa

Genesis

seven uses
  • Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

    Genesis 14:10

    • וַיָּנֻ֛סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
    • נָּֽסוּ׃nasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fled
  • Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”

    Genesis 19:20

    • לָנ֥וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

    Genesis 39:12

    • וַיָּ֖נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

    Genesis 39:13

    • וַיָּ֖נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he had fled
  • When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

    Genesis 39:15

    • וַיָּ֖נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

    Genesis 39:18

    • וַיָּ֥נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled

Exodus

five uses
  • “Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.

    Exodus 4:3

    • וַיָּ֥נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter,

    Exodus 9:20

    • הֵנִ֛יסhenisverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made to flee
  • He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”

    Exodus 14:25

    • אָנ֙וּסָה֙ʾanusahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me flee
  • So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.

    Exodus 14:27

    • נָסִ֣יםnasimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: fleeing
  • If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

    Exodus 21:13

    • יָנ֖וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee

Leviticus

two uses
  • And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

    Leviticus 26:17

    • וְנַסְתֶּ֖םvenastemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will flee
  • As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

    Leviticus 26:36

    • וְנָס֧וּvenasuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will flee

Numbers

eight uses
  • Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”

    Numbers 10:35

    • וְיָנֻ֥סוּveyanusuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may flee
  • At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

    Numbers 16:34

    • נָ֣סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fled
  • Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

    Numbers 35:6

    • לָנֻ֥סlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

    Numbers 35:11

    • וְנָ֥סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will flee
  • These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

    Numbers 35:15

    • לָנ֣וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

    Numbers 35:25

    • נָ֣סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled
  • But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

    Numbers 35:26

    • יָנ֖וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

    Numbers 35:32

    • לָנ֖וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee

Deuteronomy

ten uses
  • to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

    Deuteronomy 4:42

    • לָנֻ֨סlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
    • וְנָ֗סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will flee
  • You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.

    Deuteronomy 19:3

    • לָנ֥וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

    Deuteronomy 19:4

    • יָנ֥וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

    Deuteronomy 19:5

    • יָנ֛וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

    Deuteronomy 19:11

    • וְנָ֕סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will flee
  • The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.

    Deuteronomy 28:7

    • יָנ֥וּסוּyanusuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will flee
  • The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

    Deuteronomy 28:25

    • תָּנ֣וּסtanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will flee
  • How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

    Deuteronomy 32:30

    • יָנִ֣יסוּyanisuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will they put to flight
  • Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

    Deuteronomy 34:7

    • נָ֥סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had fled

Joshua

thirteen uses
  • So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.

    Joshua 7:4

    • וַיָּנֻ֕סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

    Joshua 8:5

    • וְנַ֖סְנוּvenasnuHc/Vqq1cptagged: and we will flee
  • They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,

    Joshua 8:6

    • נָסִ֣יםnasimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: fleeing
    • וְנַ֖סְנוּvenasnuHc/Vqq1cptagged: and we will flee
  • Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.

    Joshua 8:15

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

    Joshua 8:20

    • לָנ֖וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
    • הַנָּ֣סhanasthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was fleeing
  • As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

    Joshua 10:11

    • בְּנֻסָ֣ם׀benusampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: when fled they
  • Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

    Joshua 10:16

    • וַיָּנֻ֕סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

    Joshua 20:3

    • לָנ֥וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.

    Joshua 20:4

    • וְנָ֞סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will flee
  • He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”

    Joshua 20:6

    • נָ֥סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled
  • These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

    Joshua 20:9

    • לָנ֣וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee

Judges

thirteen uses
  • As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

    Judges 1:6

    • וַיָּ֙נָס֙vaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.

    Judges 4:15

    • וַיָּ֥נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

    Judges 4:17

    • נָ֣סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled
  • Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

    Judges 6:11

    • לְהָנִ֖יסlehanispreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hide
  • Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, crying out as they ran.

    Judges 7:21

    • וַיָּנֽוּסוּ׃vaiyanisuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they fled
  • And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

    Judges 7:22

    • וַיָּ֨נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it fled
  • When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army.

    Judges 8:12

    • וַיָּנ֗וּסוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

    Judges 9:21

    • וַיָּ֣נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. And many Shechemites fell wounded all the way to the entrance of the gate.

    Judges 9:40

    • וַיָּ֖נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

    Judges 9:51

    • וַיָּנֻ֨סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”

    Judges 20:32

    • נָנ֙וּסָה֙nanusahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us flee
  • Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.

    Judges 20:45

    • וַיָּנֻ֤סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

    Judges 20:47

    • וַיָּנֻ֤סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled

1 Samuel

twelve uses
  • So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

    1 Samuel 4:10

    • וַיָּנֻ֙סוּ֙vaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • “I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.

    1 Samuel 4:16

    • נַ֣סְתִּיnastiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have fled
  • The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

    1 Samuel 4:17

    • נָ֤סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has fled
  • When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.

    1 Samuel 14:22

    • נָ֖סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had fled
  • When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.

    1 Samuel 17:24

    • וַיָּנֻ֙סוּ֙vaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

    1 Samuel 17:51

    • וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃vaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.

    1 Samuel 19:8

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.

    1 Samuel 19:10

    • נָ֥סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled
  • And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

    1 Samuel 30:17

    • וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃vaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

    1 Samuel 31:1

    • וַיָּנֻ֜סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

    1 Samuel 31:7

    • נָ֙סוּ֙nasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had fled
    • וַיָּנֻ֔סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled

2 Samuel

sixteen uses
  • “What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”

    2 Samuel 1:4

    • נָ֨סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has fled
  • And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

    2 Samuel 4:4

    • וַתָּנֹ֔סvatanosHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she fled
    • לָנ֛וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.

    2 Samuel 10:13

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

    2 Samuel 10:14

    • נָ֣סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had fled
    • וַיָּנֻ֙סוּ֙vaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

    2 Samuel 10:18

    • וַיָּ֣נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it fled
  • So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.

    2 Samuel 13:29

    • וַיָּנֻֽסוּ׃vaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

    2 Samuel 17:2

    • וְנָ֖סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will flee
  • But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city.”

    2 Samuel 18:3

    • נֹ֨סnosverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to flee
    • נָנ֜וּסnanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will flee
  • They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

    2 Samuel 18:17

    • נָ֖סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fled
  • So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.

    2 Samuel 19:3

    • בְּנוּסָ֖םbenusampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: when flee they
  • So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.

    2 Samuel 19:8

    • נָ֖סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had fled
  • And after him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines had banded together near a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.

    2 Samuel 23:11

    • נָ֖סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it fled
  • So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

    2 Samuel 24:13

    • נֻסְךָ֨nuskhaverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: fleeing you

1 Kings

six uses
  • When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.

    1 Kings 2:28

    • וַיָּ֤נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD and is now beside the altar.” So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down!”

    1 Kings 2:29

    • נָ֤סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled
  • Then King Rehoboam sent out Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.

    1 Kings 12:18

    • לָנ֖וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with the cavalry.

    1 Kings 20:20

    • וַיָּנֻ֣סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

    1 Kings 20:30

    • וַיָּנֻ֨סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
    • נָ֔סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled

2 Kings

eleven uses
  • But when the Moabites came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and attacked them, and they fled before them. So the Israelites invaded their land and struck down the Moabites.

    2 Kings 3:24

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.

    2 Kings 7:7

    • וַיָּנ֣וּסוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.

    2 Kings 8:21

    • וַיָּ֥נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it fled
  • Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”

    2 Kings 9:3

    • וְנַ֖סְתָּהvenastahHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will flee
  • And on the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.

    2 Kings 9:10

    • וַיָּנֹֽס׃vaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”

    2 Kings 9:23

    • וַיָּנֹ֑סvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.

    2 Kings 9:27

    • וַיָּ֕נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
    • וַיָּ֥נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.

    2 Kings 14:12

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

    2 Kings 14:19

    • וַיָּ֣נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled

1 Chronicles

eight uses
  • Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

    1 Chronicles 10:1

    • וַיָּ֑נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

    1 Chronicles 10:7

    • נָ֔סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had fled
    • וַיָּנֻ֔סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At the place with a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.

    1 Chronicles 11:13

    • נָ֖סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fled
  • So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.

    1 Chronicles 19:14

    • וַיָּנ֖וּסוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Joab’s brother Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.

    1 Chronicles 19:15

    • נָ֣סnasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had fled
    • וַיָּנ֣וּסוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.

    1 Chronicles 19:18

    • וַיָּ֣נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it fled

2 Chronicles

five uses
  • Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 10:18

    • לָנ֖וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.

    2 Chronicles 13:16

    • וַיָּנ֥וּסוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • So the LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.

    2 Chronicles 14:12

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his own home.

    2 Chronicles 25:22

    • וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvaiyanusuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

    2 Chronicles 25:27

    • וַיָּ֣נָסvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled

Psalms

four uses
  • God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

    Psalms 68:1

    • וְיָנ֥וּסוּveyanusuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may flee
  • At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

    Psalms 104:7

    • יְנוּס֑וּןyenusunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they fled
  • The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

    Psalms 114:3

    • וַיָּנֹ֑סvaiyanosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it fled
  • Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

    Psalms 114:5

    • תָנ֑וּסtanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will flee

Proverbs

two uses
  • The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

    Proverbs 28:1

    • נָ֣סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they flee
  • A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

    Proverbs 28:17

    • יָ֝נ֗וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee

Song of Solomon

two uses
  • Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

    Song of Solomon 2:17

    • וְנָ֖סוּvenasuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will flee
  • Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

    Song of Solomon 4:6

    • וְנָ֖סוּvenasuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will flee

Isaiah

thirteen uses
  • What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

    Isaiah 10:3

    • תָּנ֣וּסוּtanusuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: will you flee
  • They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.

    Isaiah 10:29

    • נָֽסָה׃nasahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has fled
  • Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

    Isaiah 13:14

    • יָנֽוּסוּ׃yanusuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will flee
  • The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

    Isaiah 17:13

    • וְנָ֣סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will flee
  • And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”

    Isaiah 20:6

    • נַ֤סְנוּnasnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we fled
  • Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

    Isaiah 24:18

    • הַנָּ֞סhanasthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the flees
  • “No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.

    Isaiah 30:16

    • נָנ֖וּסnanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will flee
    • תְּנוּס֑וּןtenusunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will flee
  • A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

    Isaiah 30:17

    • תָּנֻ֑סוּtanusuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will flee
  • “Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

    Isaiah 31:8

    • וְנָ֥סvenasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will flee
  • So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    Isaiah 35:10

    • וְנָ֖סוּvenasuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will flee
  • So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    Isaiah 51:11

    • נָ֖סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will flee
  • So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.

    Isaiah 59:19

    • נֹ֥סְסָהnosesahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will drive

Jeremiah

thirteen uses
  • Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 46:5

    • נָ֖סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will flee
  • “The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.

    Jeremiah 46:6

    • יָנ֣וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he flee
  • Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

    Jeremiah 46:21

    • נָ֥סוּnasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will flee
  • ‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’

    Jeremiah 48:6

    • נֻ֖סוּnusuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: flee
  • Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’

    Jeremiah 48:19

    • נָ֣סnasverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: flees
  • “Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 48:44

    • הַנָּ֞סhanisthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the flees
  • “Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

    Jeremiah 48:45

    • נָסִ֑יםnasimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: flee
  • Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

    Jeremiah 49:8

    • נֻ֤סוּnusuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: flee
  • Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.

    Jeremiah 49:24

    • לָנ֖וּסlanuspreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.

    Jeremiah 49:30

    • נֻסוּ֩nusuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: flee
  • Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

    Jeremiah 50:16

    • יָנֻֽסוּ׃ סyanusuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will flee
  • Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

    Jeremiah 50:28

    • נָסִ֛יםnasimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: fugitives
  • Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

    Jeremiah 51:6

    • נֻ֣סוּ׀nusuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: flee

Amos

four uses
  • Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.

    Amos 2:16

    • יָנ֥וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

    Amos 5:19

    • יָנ֥וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he flees
  • I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

    Amos 9:1

    • יָנ֤וּסyanusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
    • נָ֔סnasverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: flees

Nahum

one use
  • Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

    Nahum 2:8

    • נָסִ֔יםnasimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: fleeing

Zechariah

four uses
  • “Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.

    Zechariah 2:6

    • וְנֻ֛סוּvenusuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and flee
  • You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

    Zechariah 14:5

    • וְנַסְתֶּ֣םvenastemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will flee
    • וְנַסְתֶּ֗םvenastemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will flee
    • נַסְתֶּם֙nastemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you fled

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