To flee
נָצָהStrong’s H5132natsah (na-tsah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “had they bloomed”, “have bloomed” and “fled”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to fly, flee
- (Hiphil) to bloom, blossom
How it's translated
- had they bloomed 1
- they have bloomed 1
- they fled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 2
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 7:12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
- Lamentations 4:15They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
Hebrew dictionary
נָצָה natsah · to flee
(Qal) to fly, flee
נָצַץ natsats · to bud
(Hiphil) to bloom, blossom
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.