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Joshua 20:4
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5127 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, [idiom] hide, lift up a standard.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- נָ֞ס — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 161 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 14:10Genesis 14:10Genesis 19:20Genesis 39:12Genesis 39:13
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נוּס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.