Refuge
מָנוֹסStrong’s H4498manos (ma-nos)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Manos is the Hebrew word usually translated “place of escape”, “place of escape my” and “flight”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.”
Meaning
- Flight, refuge, place of escapeflight · refuge, place of escape
How it's translated
- a place of escape 3
- and place of escape my 2
- and a place of escape 2
- and flight 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Psalms 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
- Psalms 59:16But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
- Psalms 142:4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
- Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
- Jeremiah 25:35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
- Jeremiah 46:5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
מָנוֹס manos · refuge
1) flight, refuge, place of escape 1a) flight 1b) refuge, place of escape
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refuge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REF'UGE, noun
[Latin refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]
- Shelter or protection from danger or distress.“We have made lies our refuge” Isaiah 28:15“- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us” Hebrews 6:18
- That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.“The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats” Psalms 104:18“The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed” Psalms 9:9
- An expedient to secure protection or defense.
- Expedient, in general.
All definitions and other forms of “refuge”
REF'UGE, verb transitive
To shelter; to protect.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.