נוּס
to flee
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘flee’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘put to flight’
- Hithpolel
- The reflexive counterpart of the Polel.
- Polel
- A stem of hollow/geminate roots functioning like the Piel — intensive active.
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
138 distinct verses where H5127 appears in the Qal stem, across 21 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 14:10 וַ/יָּנֻ֛סוּ נָּֽסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3cp Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
- Genesis 19:20 לָ/נ֥וּס prep + Qal inf.cs See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
- Genesis 39:12 וַ/יָּ֖נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:13 וַ/יָּ֖נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
- Genesis 39:15 וַ/יָּ֖נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
- Genesis 39:18 וַ/יָּ֥נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 4:3 וַ/יָּ֥נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
- Exodus 14:25 אָנ֨וּסָה֙ Qal coh 1cs He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"
- Exodus 14:27 נָסִ֣ים Qal ptcp.act mp Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
- Exodus 21:13 יָנ֖וּס Qal impf 3ms but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 26:17 וְ/נַסְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Leviticus 26:36 וְ/נָס֧וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.
Numbers 8 verses
- Numbers 10:35 וְ/יָנֻ֥סוּ conj + Qal impf 3mp It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.
- Numbers 16:34 נָ֣סוּ Qal pf 3cp All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
- Numbers 35:6 לָ/נֻ֥ס prep + Qal inf.cs The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
- Numbers 35:11 וְ/נָ֥ס conj + Qal wpf 3ms then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
- Numbers 35:15 לָ/נ֣וּס prep + Qal inf.cs For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
- Numbers 35:25 נָ֣ס Qal pf 3ms and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
- Numbers 35:26 יָנ֖וּס Qal impf 3ms But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,
- Numbers 35:32 לָ/נ֖וּס prep + Qal inf.cs You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Deuteronomy 8 verses
- Deuteronomy 4:42 לָ/נֻ֨ס וְ/נָ֗ס prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wpf 3ms that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
- Deuteronomy 19:3 לָ/נ֥וּס prep + Qal inf.cs You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.
- Deuteronomy 19:4 יָנ֥וּס Qal impf 3ms This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;
- Deuteronomy 19:5 יָנ֛וּס Qal impf 3ms as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
- Deuteronomy 19:11 וְ/נָ֕ס conj + Qal wpf 3ms But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
- Deuteronomy 28:7 יָנ֥וּסוּ Qal impf 3mp Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 תָּנ֣וּס Qal impf 2ms Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 34:7 נָ֥ס Qal pf 3ms Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Joshua 11 verses
- Joshua 7:4 וַ/יָּנֻ֕סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
- Joshua 8:5 וְ/נַ֖סְנוּ conj + Qal wpf 1cp and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:6 נָסִ֣ים וְ/נַ֖סְנוּ Qal ptcp.act mp conj + Qal wpf 1cp and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:15 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
- Joshua 8:20 לָ/נ֖וּס הַ/נָּ֣ס prep + Qal inf.cs ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
- Joshua 10:11 בְּ/נֻסָ֣/ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
- Joshua 10:16 וַ/יָּנֻ֕סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
- Joshua 20:3 לָ/נ֥וּס prep + Qal inf.cs that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
- Joshua 20:4 וְ/נָ֞ס conj + Qal wpf 3ms He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
- Joshua 20:6 נָ֥ס Qal pf 3ms He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled.
- Joshua 20:9 לָ/נ֣וּס prep + Qal inf.cs These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Judges 12 verses
- Judges 1:6 וַ/יָּ֨נָס֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
- Judges 4:15 וַ/יָּ֥נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
- Judges 4:17 נָ֣ס Qal pf 3ms However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 7:21 ו/יניסו וַ/יָּנֽוּסוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
- Judges 7:22 וַ/יָּ֨נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
- Judges 8:12 וַ/יָּנ֗וּסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the host.
- Judges 9:21 וַ/יָּ֣נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
- Judges 9:40 וַ/יָּ֖נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
- Judges 9:51 וַ/יָּנֻ֨סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 20:32 נָנ֨וּסָה֙ Qal coh 1cp The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.
- Judges 20:45 וַ/יָּנֻ֤סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.
- Judges 20:47 וַ/יָּנֻ֤סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
1 Samuel 11 verses
- 1 Samuel 4:10 וַ/יָּנֻ֨סוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
- 1 Samuel 4:16 נַ֣סְתִּי Qal pf 1cs The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
- 1 Samuel 4:17 נָ֤ס Qal pf 3ms He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
- 1 Samuel 14:22 נָ֖סוּ Qal pf 3cp Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
- 1 Samuel 17:24 וַ/יָּנֻ֨סוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
- 1 Samuel 17:51 וַ/יָּנֻֽסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
- 1 Samuel 19:8 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
- 1 Samuel 19:10 נָ֥ס Qal pf 3ms Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
- 1 Samuel 30:17 וַ/יָּנֻֽסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
- 1 Samuel 31:1 וַ/יָּנֻ֜סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Samuel 31:7 נָ֨סוּ֙ וַ/יָּנֻ֔סוּ Qal pf 3cp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
2 Samuel 13 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:4 נָ֨ס Qal pf 3ms David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
- 2 Samuel 4:4 וַ/תָּנֹ֔ס לָ/נ֛וּס conj + Qal wimpf 3fs prep + Qal inf.cs Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
- 2 Samuel 10:13 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
- 2 Samuel 10:14 נָ֣ס וַ/יָּנֻ֨סוּ֙ Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 10:18 וַ/יָּ֣נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
- 2 Samuel 13:29 וַ/יָּנֻֽסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got him up on his mule, and fled.
- 2 Samuel 17:2 וְ/נָ֖ס conj + Qal wpf 3ms and I will come on him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee; and I will strike the king only;
- 2 Samuel 18:3 נֹ֨ס נָנ֜וּס Qal inf.abs Qal impf 1cp But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 18:17 נָ֖סוּ Qal pf 3cp They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.
- 2 Samuel 19:3 בְּ/נוּסָ֖/ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- 2 Samuel 19:8 נָ֖ס Qal pf 3ms Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
- 2 Samuel 23:11 נָ֖ס Qal pf 3ms After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 נֻסְ/ךָ֨ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1 Kings 5 verses
- 1 Kings 2:28 וַ/יָּ֤נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
- 1 Kings 2:29 נָ֤ס Qal pf 3ms It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.
- 1 Kings 12:18 לָ/נ֖וּס prep + Qal inf.cs Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 20:20 וַ/יָּנֻ֣סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
- 1 Kings 20:30 וַ/יָּנֻ֨סוּ נָ֔ס conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3ms But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
2 Kings 9 verses
- 2 Kings 3:24 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.
- 2 Kings 7:7 וַ/יָּנ֣וּסוּ וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
- 2 Kings 8:21 וַ/יָּ֥נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
- 2 Kings 9:3 וְ/נַ֖סְתָּה conj + Qal wpf 2ms Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait.
- 2 Kings 9:10 וַ/יָּנֹֽס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled.
- 2 Kings 9:23 וַ/יָּנֹ֑ס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah.
- 2 Kings 9:27 וַ/יָּ֕נָס וַ/יָּ֥נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
- 2 Kings 14:12 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
- 2 Kings 14:19 וַ/יָּ֣נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
1 Chronicles 6 verses
- 1 Chronicles 10:1 וַ/יָּ֑נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:7 נָ֔סוּ וַ/יָּנֻ֔סוּ Qal pf 3cp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Chronicles 11:13 נָ֖סוּ Qal pf 3cp He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 19:14 וַ/יָּנ֖וּסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15 נָ֣ס וַ/יָּנ֣וּסוּ Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 19:18 וַ/יָּ֣נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
2 Chronicles 5 verses
- 2 Chronicles 10:18 לָ/נ֖וּס prep + Qal inf.cs Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 13:16 וַ/יָּנ֥וּסוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
- 2 Chronicles 14:12 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
- 2 Chronicles 25:22 וַ/יָּנֻ֖סוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
- 2 Chronicles 25:27 וַ/יָּ֣נָס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
Psalms 4 verses
- Psalms 68:1 וְ/יָנ֥וּסוּ conj + Qal impf 3mp Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
- Psalms 104:7 יְנוּס֑וּ/ן Qal impf 3mp + sfx n At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
- Psalms 114:3 וַ/יָּנֹ֑ס conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
- Psalms 114:5 תָנ֑וּס Qal impf 2ms What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
Proverbs 2 verses
Song of Solomon 2 verses
- Song of Solomon 2:17 וְ/נָ֖סוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, And be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Solomon 4:6 וְ/נָ֖סוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, To the hill of frankincense.
Isaiah 11 verses
- Isaiah 10:3 תָּנ֣וּסוּ Qal impf 2mp What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
- Isaiah 10:29 נָֽסָה Qal pf 3fs they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
- Isaiah 13:14 יָנֽוּסוּ Qal impf 3mp It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
- Isaiah 17:13 וְ/נָ֣ס conj + Qal wpf 3ms The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 20:6 נַ֤סְנוּ Qal pf 1cp The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
- Isaiah 24:18 הַ/נָּ֞ס ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
- Isaiah 30:16 נָנ֖וּס תְּנוּס֑וּ/ן Qal impf 1cp Qal impf 2mp + sfx n but you said, No, for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall those who pursue you be swift.
- Isaiah 30:17 תָּנֻ֑סוּ Qal impf 2mp One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
- Isaiah 31:8 וְ/נָ֥ס conj + Qal wpf 3ms The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.
- Isaiah 35:10 וְ/נָ֖סוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Isaiah 51:11 נָ֖סוּ Qal pf 3cp The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Jeremiah 13 verses
- Jeremiah 46:5 נָ֖סוּ Qal pf 3cp Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 46:6 יָנ֣וּס Qal juss 3ms Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
- Jeremiah 46:21 נָ֥סוּ Qal pf 3cp Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 48:6 נֻ֖סוּ Qal impv 2mp Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 48:19 נָ֣ס Qal ptcp.act ms Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
- Jeremiah 48:44 הַ/נָּ֞ס ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 48:45 נָסִ֑ים Qal ptcp.act mp Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
- Jeremiah 49:8 נֻ֤סוּ Qal impv 2mp Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.
- Jeremiah 49:24 לָ/נ֖וּס prep + Qal inf.cs Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 49:30 נֻסוּ֩ Qal impv 2mp Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
- Jeremiah 50:16 יָנֻֽסוּ Qal impf 3mp Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.
- Jeremiah 50:28 נָסִ֛ים Qal ptcp.act mp The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 51:6 נֻ֣סוּ Qal impv 2mp Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
Amos 3 verses
- Amos 2:16 יָנ֥וּס Qal impf 3ms And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day," says Yahweh.
- Amos 5:19 יָנ֥וּס Qal impf 3ms As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.
- Amos 9:1 יָנ֤וּס נָ֔ס Qal impf 3ms Qal ptcp.act ms I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
Nahum 1 verse
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 2:6 וְ/נֻ֛סוּ conj + Qal impv 2mp Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says Yahweh; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' says Yahweh.
- Zechariah 14:5 וְ/נַסְתֶּ֣ם וְ/נַסְתֶּ֗ם נַסְתֶּם֙ conj + Qal wpf 2mp conj + Qal wpf 2mp Qal pf 2mp You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
About this entry
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נוס (nûwç) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to flee.” It first appears in Genesis 14:10. Spanning 143 verses in 21 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Across 3 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Hiphil). Related forms include מנוס and ניס. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5127 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 143
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 143 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #285
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 285 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 143 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 143 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 93 verses · 65%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 30 verses · 21%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fled 46×, Flee 15×, They fled 11×
- American Standard Version: Fled 41×, Flee 14×, They fled 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fled 39×, Flee 14×, Had fled 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fled 44×, And 21×, They fled 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5127 across 160 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 41 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5127 across 160 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 51 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5127 across 157 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 39 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5127 across 179 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 10 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. נָס Nu 35:25 +; נַ֫סְתָּה 2 K 9:3; נַ֫סְתִּי 1 S 4:16, etc.; Impf. יָנוּס Ex 21:13 +; וַיָּנָ֫ס Gn 39:12 +; יְנוּס֑וּן ψ 104:7, etc.; Imv. mpl. נֻ֫סוּ Je 48:6 + 4 times Je Zc; Inf. abs. נוֹס 2 S 18:3; cstr. לָנוּס (לָנֻס) Gn 19:20 +; Pt. נָס Am 9:1 +; נָסִים Ex 14:27 +; — e.g. Numbers 35:25
- 1. flee, abs. Gn 39:12, 15 Nu 16:34 (all J); Jos 10:16 (JE); Lv 26:17, 36 (H); fig. of sea ψ 114:3, 5 cf. 104:7; sq. acc. cogn. מָנוֹס Je 46:5, sq. דֶּרֶךְ Jos 8:15 (J), 2 K 9:27; sq. בְּדֶרֶךְ Dt 28:7, 25; נ׳ אֶל־נַפְשָׁם 2 K 7:7 flee for their life, נ׳ בְּרַגְלָיו Ju 4:15 flee on foot; + 44 times abs. (not elsewhere Hex); sq. אֶל־ loc. Dt 4:42; 19:5, 11 (D), Nu 35:32 Jos 20:4 (both P), Ju 4:17 1 K 2:28, 29 Is 13:14; sq. לְ 1 S 4:10 + 6 times + לִקְרָאתוֹ Ex 14:27 (E; not elsewhere Hex); sq. עַד Ju 7:22 + Pr 28:17 (עַד־בּוֹר, v. בּוֹר); sq. עַל־ Is 10:3; sq. ָה loc. Gn 14:10 + 4 times JE, Nu 35:6 + 6 times P, Dt 4:42; 19:3, 4 (D), + 6 times; sq. שָׁם Is 20:6; sq. acc. loc. Jos 8:20 (J), + 4 times; sq. מִמֶּרְחָק Is 17:13 = far away; sq. מִן from, Jos 20:6 (P), 1 S 4:16 + 3 times; מִתּוֹךְ Je 51:6; especially מִפְּנֵי from before Ex 4:3; 14:25 Nu 10:35 Jos 10:11 (all JE), 1 S 17:24 Je 48:44 (Qr הַנָּס, > Kt הניס), + 19 times; sq. לִפְנֵי Jos 7:4; 8:5, 6(×2) (all J), 1 S 4:17 2 S 24:13, מִלִּפְנֵי 1 Ch 19:18. e.g. Genesis 39:12
- 2. escape Am 9:1 (‖ נמלט) so Je 46:6; hence e.g. Amos 9:1
- 3. take flight, depart, disappear, only fig.; Dt 34:7 (JE) his freshness (לֵחֹה vigour) was not gone (‖ לֹא כָֽהֲתָה עינו); of shadows (at evening), Ct 2:17; 4:6; of sorrow etc. Is 35:10; 51:11. e.g. Deuteronomy 34:7
- 4. נ׳ עַל־סוּס Is 30:16 fly (to the attack) on horseback. e.g. Isaiah 30:16
Poʿlel
- Pf. Is 59:19 רוּחַ י׳ נֹסֲסָה בּוֹ the breath of י׳ driveth at it, driveth it on (cf. Hiph. 2). †Hithpoʿl. Inf. cstr. לְהִתְנוֹסֵס מִפְּנֵי ψ 60:6 in order to take flight before the bow (so Vrss Hup-Now but v. ii. [נסס]). e.g. Isaiah 59:19
Hiphil
- Pf. הֵנִיס Ex 9:20; Impf. יָנִיסוּ Dt 32:30 + Ju 7:21 Kt (Qr וַיָּנוּסוּ Qal); Inf. cstr. לְהָנִיס Ju 6:11;— e.g. Exodus 9:20
- 1. put to flight, sq. acc. Dt 32:30 (‖ רדף). e.g. Deuteronomy 32:30
- 2. drive hastily to a safe place Ex 9:20, sq. acc. + אֶל־. e.g. Exodus 9:20
- 3. cause to disappear, hide Ju 6:11 (no obj. expr.) sq. מִפְּנֵי. e.g. Judges 6:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. flee, escape (Syriac ܢܳܣ tremble (rare), cf. Brock; Arabic نوس, نَاسَ move to and fro, be in commotion, dangle, Lane 2866);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נוּס
- (b. h.) to flee. Ex. R. s. 3 למה נָס why did he flee (before the serpent)? Yalk. Ex. 237 בכל מקים שהיה מצרי נס וכ׳ withersoever an Egyptian fled, the sea ran against him; Mekh. B’shall. 6 מצרים נָסִים; a. fr.
נוּס ²
- ch., v. נְסִס
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 103 distinct written forms H5127 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 43 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5127, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 132 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 143 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 14:10
- Exodus 4:3
- Leviticus 26:17
- Numbers 10:35
- Deuteronomy 4:42
- Joshua 7:4
- Judges 1:6
- 1 Samuel 4:10
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 1 Kings 2:28
- 2 Kings 3:24
- 1 Chronicles 10:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
