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נוּס H5127
H5127 is the Hebrew word נוּס, transliterated nûwç and said noos. The King James Version most often renders it fled.
What it means
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver).
Where it comes from
a primitive root.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 131 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: [idiom] abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, [idiom] hide, lift up a standard.
Verses using נוּס
The first 40 of 133 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 14:10 · KJV
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Genesis 19:20 · KJV
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Genesis 39:12 · KJV
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis 39:13 · KJV
And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
Genesis 39:15 · KJV
And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis 39:18 · KJV
And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
Exodus 4:3 · KJV
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Exodus 9:20 · KJV
He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
Exodus 14:25 · KJV
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus 14:27 · KJV
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Leviticus 26:17 · KJV
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Leviticus 26:36 · KJV
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Numbers 10:35 · KJV
And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Numbers 16:34 · KJV
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Numbers 35:6 · KJV
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
Numbers 35:11 · KJV
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
Numbers 35:25 · KJV
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:32 · KJV
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Deuteronomy 4:42 · KJV
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy 19:4 · KJV
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
Deuteronomy 19:5 · KJV
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Deuteronomy 19:11 · KJV
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
Deuteronomy 28:7 · KJV
The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
Deuteronomy 28:25 · KJV
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:30 · KJV
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Joshua 7:4 · KJV
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:5 · KJV
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
Joshua 8:6 · KJV
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:15 · KJV
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua 8:20 · KJV
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua 10:11 · KJV
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua 10:16 · KJV
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 20:3 · KJV
That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Joshua 20:4 · KJV
And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua 20:9 · KJV
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Judges 1:6 · KJV
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Judges 4:15 · KJV
And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Judges 4:17 · KJV
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges 6:11 · KJV
And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Judges 7:21 · KJV
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
Common questions
What does Strong's H5127 mean?
H5127 is the Hebrew word נוּס (nûwç), meaning to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver).
How is H5127 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it fled (74 times), flee (37 times), flee away (5 times), fleeth (4 times), fled away (3 times), among others.
How many times does H5127 appear in the Bible?
נוּס (nûwç) is tagged in 133 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H5127 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.
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