Lexical Summary nus: to flee, escape Original Word: נוּסTransliteration: nus Phonetic Spelling: (noos) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to flee, escape Meaning: to flit, vanish away Strong's Concordance abate, away, be displayed, make to flee away put to flight, hide, lift up a standard A primitive root; to flit, i.e. Vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver) -- X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5127. nus נוּס160 verb flee, escape (Syriac tremble (rare), compare Brock; Arabic move to and fro, be in commotion, dangle, Lane2866); — Qal Perfect נָס Numbers 35:25 +; נַ֫סְתָּה 2 Kings 9:3; נַ֫סְתִּי 1 Samuel 4:16, etc.; Imperfect יָנוּס Exodus 21:13 +; וַיָּנָ֫ס Genesis 39:12 +; יְנוּס֑וּן Psalm 104:7, etc.; Imperative masculine plural נֻ֫סוּ Jeremiah 48:6 4t. Jeremiah, Zechariah; Infinitive absolute נוֺס 2 Samuel 18:3; construct לָנוּס (לָנֻס) Genesis 19:20 +; Participle נָס Amos 9:1 +; נָסִים Exodus 14:27 +; — 1 flee, absolute Genesis 39:12, 15; Numbers 16:34 (all J); Joshua 10:16 (JE); Leviticus 26:17, 36; (H); figurative of sea Psalm 114:3; 114:5; compare 104:7; followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb מָנוֺס Jeremiah 46:5, followed by דֶּרֶךְ Joshua 8:15 (J), 2 Kings 9:27; followed by בְּדֶרֶךְ Deuteronomy 28:7, 25; ׳נ אֶלנַֿפְשָׁם 2 Kings 7:7 flee for their life, ׳נ בְּרַגְלָיו, Judges 4:15 flee on foot; + 44 t. absolute (not elsewhere Hexateuch); followed by אֶלֿ location Deuteronomy 4:42; 19:5, 11 (D), Numbers 35:32; Joshua 20:4 (both P), Judges 4:17; 1 Kings 2:28-29, Isaiah 13:14; followed by לְ 1 Samuel 4:10 6t. + לִקְרָאתוֺ Exodus 14:27 (E; not elsewhere Hexateuch); followed by עַד Judges 7:22 + Proverbs 28:17 (עַדבּֿוֺר, see בּוֺר); followed by עַלֿ Isaiah 10:3; followed by ָ ה locative Genesis 14:10 4t. J E, Numbers 35:6 6t. P, Deuteronomy 4:42; 19:3-4, (D), + 6 t.; followed by שָׁם Isaiah 20:6; followed by accusative of location Joshua 8:20 (J), + 4 t.; followed by מִמֶּרְחָק Isaiah 17:13 = far away; followed by מִן from, Joshua 20:6 (P), 1 Samuel 4:16 3t.; מִתּוֺךְ Jeremiah 51:6; especially מִמְּנֵי from before Exodus 4:3; 14:25; Numbers 10:35; Joshua 10:11 (all J E), 1 Samuel 17:24; Jeremiah 48:44 (Qr הַנָּס, > Kt הניס), + 19 t.; followed by לִפְנֵי Joshua 7:4; 8:5 (twice in verse); 8:6 (all J), 1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 24:13, מִלִּפְנֵי 1 Chronicles 19:18. 2 escape Amos 9:1 ("" נמלט) so Jeremiah 46:6; hence 3 take flight, depart, disappear, only figurative; Deuteronomy 34:7 (JE) his freshness (לֵחֹה vigour) was not gone ("" עינו כָֽהֲתָה לֹא); of shadows (at evening), Song of Solomon 2:17; 4:6; of sorrow etc. Isaiah 35:10; 51:11. 4 ׳נ עַלסֿוּס Isaiah 30:16 fly (to the attack) on horseback. Po`lel Perfect Isaiah 59:19 י ׳רוּחַ בּוֺ נֹסֲסָה the breath of ׳י driveth at it, driveth it on (compare Hiph`il 2). Hithpo`l. Infinitive construct מִמְּנֵי לְהִתְנוֺסֵס Psalm 60:6 in order to take flight before the bow (so Vrss Hup-Now Che Bae and others). Hiph`il Perfect הֵנִיס Exodus 9:20; Imperfect יָנִיסוּ Deuteronomy 32:30 + Judges 7:21 Kt (Qr וַיָּנוּסוּ Qal); Infinitive construct לְתָנִיס Judges 6:11; — 1 put to flight, followed by accusative Deuteronomy 32:30 ("" רדף). 2 drive hastily to a safe place Exodus 9:20, followed by accusative + אֶלֿ. 3 cause to disappear, hide Judges 6:11 (no object expressed) followed by מִמְּנֵי. |