נוץ
to fly
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 2 times (67%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5132 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Song of Solomon 2 verses
- Song of Solomon 6:11 הֵנֵ֖צוּ Hiphil pf 3cp I went down into the nut tree grove, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower.
- Song of Solomon 7:12 הֵנֵ֖צוּ Hiphil pf 3cp Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
Lamentations 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to fly” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb נוץ (nûwts). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Song of Solomon. First canonically at Song of Solomon 6:11, it enters the text early. Across 2 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Hiphil). The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5132 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Song of Solomon 2 verses 67%
- Lamentations 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Bud forth 1×, Budded 1×, They fled away 1×
- American Standard Version†: Are in flower 1×, Budded 1×, Not 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Bloom 1×, They fled 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Bloomed 1×, Had 1×, Have bloomed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5132 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5132 across 4† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5132 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5132 across 4† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
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 2 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.
נוץ I shine, sparkle (NH נִצְנֵץ
Qal
- Pt. וְנֹצְצִים כְּעֵין נְחשֶׁת Ez 1:7 (of cherubim);—PerlesAnal.45 proposes נוֹצִיצָם their plumage (נ׳ ‖ form of נוֹצָה), cf. Ew. e.g. Ezekiel 1:7
נוץ II denom. bloom, blossom (NH id.
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 pl. הֵנֵ֫צוּ Ct 6:11 (no dagh., v. Köi. 381 Ges§ 67, 8, R. 11) the pomegranates have put forth blossoms, so 7:13; Impf. 3 ms. יָנֵאץ Ec 12:5 the almond-tree wears blossoms. e.g. Song of Solomon 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
I. vb. shine, sparkle (NH נִצְנֵץ; akin to Arabic نَاضَ sparkle, flash, 𝔗 נְעָא);—
II. vb. denom. bloom, blossom (NH id.; Jewish-Aramaic נְצַץ id.);—
— 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.
נוּץ
- h., v. נָצַץ
נוּץ ²
- ch., v. נִיץ
נָצַץ
- to sparkle, blossom. Erub. 54ᵃ נוֹצְצִין, v. הָלָה.
- 1. to sparkle. Y. Ber. I, 2ᶜ עד שתָּנֵץ החמה; Gen. R. s. 50, a. e. (Pes. 93ᵇ עד הנץ), v. הָנֵץ.
- 2. to blossom, sprout. Shebi. IV, 10 משיָנֵצּוּ; Pes. 53ᵃ משיָנֵיצּוּ (or משיָנִיצוּ) as soon as they blossom (expl. Y. Shebi. IV, end, 35ᶜ משהכניסו רובע, v. נֵץ). B. Bath. 147ᵃ בשעה שיניצו (Ms. M. שהֵנֵיצּוּ) when they are in blossom. Koh. R. to XII, 5, v. צוּץ; a. fr.—2) to cause to sprout. Gen. R. s. 28 מֵנֵיץ Ar. (ed. מציץ), v. צוּץ.
- 1. to sparkle, be enkindled. Gen. R. s. 84 נִיצְנְצָה בו רוה"ק the spirit of prophecy was enkindled within him; Cant. R. to I, 12. Midr. Till. to Ps. XC, end, נ׳ עליו מזיו וכ׳ a ray of the Divine Glory shone upon him, v. זָהַר.
- 2. to sprout, grow. Cant. R. to VI, 10 מְנַצְנֶצֶת ובאה spreads wider and wider; (Midr. Till. to Ps. XXII מנפצת).
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 2 distinct written forms H5132 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֵנֵ֖צוּ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Song of Solomon 6:11 | 2 |
| נָצ֖וּ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Lamentations 4:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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
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.
