nuts · bud, flee

What it means

nuts (נוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bud, flee”.

Two senses: to bud, to blossom (Song of Songs 6:11), and to flee, to fly away (Lamentations 4:15).

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 put out flowers or shoots.
2. To run away from a place to get clear of danger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• had budded ×1
• have budded ×1
• they fled ×1

Where it appears

• Song of Songs×2
• Lamentations×1

• Song of Songs 6:11

  To the garden of walnut trees I went down to see the green shoots of the valley, to see whether the vine had blossomed, whether the pomegranates had budded.

• Song of Songs 7:12

  Let us rise early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has blossomed, whether the blossom has opened, whether the pomegranates have budded; there I will give my love to you.

• Lamentations 4:15

  “Turn away, unclean!” they called to them; “turn away, turn away, do not touch!” When they fled, they also wandered; they said among the nations, “They will not continue to reside as aliens here.”