נוּס
nûwç · noos
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
- to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape
- causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, [idiom] hide, lift up a standard.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to fasten and establish › to support and uphold
The seed, life continuing that works to fasten and establish that works to support and uphold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נוּס above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
159 occurrences · 159 OT · 0 NT · 101 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- fled26 · 27%
- and fled16 · 16%
- and they fled7 · 7%
- flee5 · 5%
- to flee5 · 5%
- may flee4 · 4%
- and he fled3 · 3%
- and flee3 · 3%
- flee away3 · 3%
- shall flee away3 · 3%
- is fled2 · 2%
- whither he was fled2 · 2%
- might flee2 · 2%
- they fled2 · 2%
- he that fleeth2 · 2%
- were fled2 · 2%
- let us flee2 · 2%
- for him that is fled1 · 1%
- that he may flee1 · 1%
- them fled1 · 1%
- thee flee1 · 1%
- them; and they shall flee1 · 1%
- over you; and ye shall flee1 · 1%
- whither he shall flee1 · 1%
- and was fled1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.