Fugitive
מְנוּסָהStrong’s H4499menusah (me-nu-sah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Menusah is the Hebrew word usually translated “flight of” and “flight”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Flight, retreat
How it's translated
- a flight of 1
- and in flight 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְנוּסָה menusah · fugitive
flight, retreat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fugitive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FU'GITIVE, adjective
[Latin fugitivus, from fugio, to flee. Gr.]
- Volatile; apt to flee away; readily wafted by the wind.
- Not tenable; not to be held or detained; readily escaping; as a fugitive idea.
- Unstable; unsteady; fleeting; not fixed or durable.
- Fleeing; running from danger or pursuit.
All definitions and other forms of “fugitive”
- Fleeing from duty; eloping; escaping.
- Wandering; vagabond; as a fugitive physician.
- In literature, fugitive compositions are such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.
FU'GITIVE, noun
- One who fees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger.
- One who has fled or deserted and taken refuge under another power, or one who has fled from punishment.
- One hard to be caught or detained.
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.