nus · flee

What it means

nus (נוּס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flee”.

Escape; in the causative form, put to flight.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To run off to get away from a danger or an enemy.
2. To run to a place where one is safe.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To flee. BDB: to flee, escape; causatively, to put to flight. From the same root comes מָנוֹס, “a place to flee to”.

• Joseph flees leaving his garment Genesis 39:12
• Fleeing in defeat 1 Samuel 4:10
• The city of refuge, “to flee there” Numbers 35:6
• “Let those who hate him flee from before him” Psalms 68:1
• “Sorrow and sighing will flee” Isaiah 35:10

How we translate it

Forms of “flee”: “fled” 84, “flee” 56, “flees” 8, “fleeing” 5… Two Hebrew verbs, נוּס and בָּרַח, are both translated “flee”, without distinction.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fled ×84
• flee ×56
• flees ×8
• fleeing ×5
• be raised ×1
• drives along ×1
• fugitives ×1
• hide it ×1
• put to flight ×1
• we indeed ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×8
• Deuteronomy×10
• Joshua×13
• Judges×13
• 1 Samuel×12
• 2 Samuel×16
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×11
• 1 Chronicles×8
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×13
• Jeremiah×13
• Amos×4
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 14:10

  Now the Valley of Siddim was pit after pit of bitumen; and as they fled, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there, and those who were left fled to the mountains.

• Genesis 19:20

  Look, this city is near to flee there, and it is small. Please let me escape there (is it not small?) and I will stay alive.”

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and went outside.

• Genesis 39:13

  When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”

• Genesis 39:18

  But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”

• Exodus 4:3

  He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it.

• Exodus 9:20

  Whoever feared the word of YHWH among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;

• Exodus 14:25

  He removed the wheels of their chariots and made them drive with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for YHWH is fighting for them against Egypt.”

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 21:13

  But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim let him fall into his hand, I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

• Leviticus 26:17

  And I will set my face against you, and you will be struck down before your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

• Leviticus 26:36

  And as for those who are left of you, I will bring faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.

• Numbers 10:35

  And whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, YHWH, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee from before you.”

• Numbers 16:34

  And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us!”

• Numbers 35:6

  And the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge that you shall give for the manslayer to flee there; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

• Numbers 35:11

  you shall select for yourselves cities; they shall be cities of refuge for you, and the manslayer who strikes down a person inadvertently may flee there.

• Numbers 35:15

  For the sons of Israel and for the resident alien and for the temporary resident among them these six cities shall be for refuge, for anyone who strikes down a person inadvertently to flee there.

• Numbers 35:25

  And the community shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community shall return him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

• Numbers 35:26

  But if the manslayer does go out beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he fled,

• Numbers 35:32

  And you shall not accept compensation for one who fled to his city of refuge, to return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

• Deuteronomy 4:42

  for the manslayer to flee there, who kills his neighbor unknowingly, and he did not hate him previously, so that by fleeing to one of these cities he may live:

• Deuteronomy 19:3

  You shall prepare for yourself the road, and divide into three parts the territory of your land that YHWH your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer may flee there.

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives: whoever strikes his neighbor without knowing it, and he did not hate him previously,

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when someone goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off from the wood and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,

• Deuteronomy 19:11

  But if there is a man who hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him and rises against him and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

• Deuteronomy 28:7

  YHWH will make your enemies who rise up against you defeated before you; they will come out against you by one way and flee before you by seven ways.

• Deuteronomy 28:25

  YHWH will make you defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them by one way and flee before them by seven ways; and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 32:30

  How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and YHWH had handed them over?

• Deuteronomy 34:7

  And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye had not grown dim, and his vigor had not fled.

• Joshua 7:4

  So about three thousand men from the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

• Joshua 8:5

  And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.

• Joshua 8:6

  They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.

• Joshua 8:15

  Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness.

• Joshua 8:20

  The men of Ai turned back and looked, and look, the smoke of the city was going up to the heavens, and they had no strength to flee this way or that way; and the people who were fleeing to the wilderness turned back against the pursuer.

• Joshua 10:11

  And it came about, as they fled before Israel, while they were on the descent of Beth-horon, that YHWH threw down on them great stones from the heavens as far as Azekah, and they died. More were those who died by the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

• Joshua 10:16

  Now these five kings fled and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 20:3

  so that the manslayer who mortally strikes a person inadvertently, unknowingly, may flee there; and they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Joshua 20:4

  And he shall flee to one of these cities and stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and speak his words in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to themselves, and give him a place, and he shall live with them.

• Joshua 20:6

  And he shall live in that city until he stands before the community for judgment, until the death of the high priest who is in those days. Then the manslayer shall return and come to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.’”

And 120 more times.