Lexical Summary nuts: flee away, bud forth Original Word: נוּץTransliteration: nuts Phonetic Spelling: (noots) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: flee away, bud forth Meaning: to flash, to blossom, to fly away Strong's Concordance flee away, bud forth A primitive root; properly, to flash; hence, to blossom (from the brilliancy of color); also, to fly away (from the quickness of motion) -- flee away, bud (forth). Brown-Driver-Briggs H5132. nuts I. [נָצָה] verb fly (?); — only Qal Perfect 3 plural (si vera lectio) גַּםנָֿ֑עוּ נָצ֫וּ Lamentations 4:15 (of homeless exiles); text very dubious; read perhapsנָ֫דוּ (compare Genesis 4:12, 14), so Bu; Löhr (more venturesomely) מָנוֺחַ יִמְצְאוּ לֹא כִּי; Buhl13perhaps נָָֽגְעוּ גַּם כִּי. |
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