nes · pole, banner, sign

What it means

nes (נֵס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pole, banner, sign”.

Pole, standard: a tall staff or banner that serves as a sign for all to see.

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. A signal raised on a staff, for all to gather.
2. A sign that warns or serves as an example to others.
3. The cloth spread on a ship's mast to catch the wind.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• banner ×16
• pole ×2
• sail ×1
• sign ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1

• Numbers 21:8

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Make for yourself a fiery serpent and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

• Numbers 21:9

  So Moses made a serpent of bronze and set it on the pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look to the serpent of bronze and live.

• Numbers 26:10

  The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah when the community died, when the fire consumed two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

• Psalms 60:4

  You have given to those who fear you a banner to be raised because of the truth. Selah.

• Isaiah 5:26

  And he will raise a banner for the nations from afar, and whistle for it from the end of the earth; and look, swiftly, speedily it comes.

• Isaiah 11:10

  And it will happen on that day that the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner for the peoples, the nations will seek him, and his resting place will be glory.

• Isaiah 11:12

  And he will raise a banner for the nations, and gather the banished of Israel, and the scattered of Judah he will assemble from the four corners of the earth.

• Isaiah 13:2

  On a bare mountain raise a banner; lift up the voice to them; wave the hand, and let them enter the doorways of the nobles.

• Isaiah 18:3

  All the inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, look! And when the horn is blown, listen!

• Isaiah 30:17

  One thousand will flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you will flee, until you are left like a flagpole on the top of the mountain, and like a banner on the hill.

• Isaiah 31:9

  And his crag will pass away because of terror, and his princes will be dismayed at the banner, declares YHWH, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 33:23

  Your ropes hang loose; they cannot hold firm the base of their mast, they cannot spread out the sail. Then prey, abundant spoil, will be divided; the lame will plunder the plunder.

• Isaiah 49:22

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will raise my banner; and they will bring your sons in the bosom, and your daughters will be carried on the shoulder.

• Isaiah 62:10

  Pass through, pass through the gates! Clear the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones! Lift up a banner over the peoples!

• Jeremiah 4:6

  Raise a banner toward Zion; flee for safety, do not stand still, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great breaking.

• Jeremiah 4:21

  How long must I see the banner, must I hear the sound of the horn?

• Jeremiah 50:2

  Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner; proclaim, do not conceal it; say, “Babylon is captured, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her idols are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.”

• Jeremiah 51:12

  Against the walls of Babylon lift up a banner; strengthen the watch; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for YHWH has both purposed and done what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 51:27

  Lift up a banner in the land; blow the horn among the nations; consecrate nations against her; summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint against her an officer; bring up horses like bristling locusts.

• Ezekiel 27:7

  Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail, to serve you as a banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was your awning.