To flee
נוּדStrong’s H5127nud
Appears in 142 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nud is the Hebrew word usually translated “fled”, “flee” and “it fled”. It appears in 142 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to flee
How it's translated
- and they fled 31
- and he fled 16
- to flee 13
- he will flee 7
- they will flee 6
- flee 6
- they fled 5
- and it fled 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 13
- 2 Samuel 13
- Jeremiah 13
- Isaiah 12
- Joshua 11
- 1 Samuel 11
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:5In contextAnd ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
- Genesis 14:10And 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 19:20Behold 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 39:12And 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 39:13And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
- Genesis 39:15And 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.
All 142 verses, by book
- Nahum 1
- 2:8
Hebrew dictionary
נוּד nud · to flee
(P'al) to flee Aramaic of nus (נוּס "to flee" H5127)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flee” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLEE, verb intransitive
- To run with rapidity, as from danger; to attempt to escape; to hasten from danger or expected evil.“Arise, take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt” Matthew 2:13
- To depart; to leave; to hasten away.“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” James 4:7
- To avoid; to keep at a distance from.“FLEE fornication; flee from idolatry” 1 Corinthians 10:14
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.