מָנוֹס
mânôwç · H4498 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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flight
Action by which humans move to another place in haste, in order to escape from a dangerous situation
ExamplesJeremiah 46:5 “Why have I seen it? They are terrified, They are retreating, And their warriors are defeated And have taken refuge in flight, Without facing back. Terror is on every side!” Declares the LORD.
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escape
An opportunity for humans move to another place in haste, in order to escape from a dangerous situation
ExamplesJob 11:20 “But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And there will be no escape for them; And their hope is to breathe their last.”
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refuge
Literally: flight; hence: a place where people can go to find security; only used for God
Examples2 Samuel 22:3 My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge; My savior, You save me from violence.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָבַדto perish, to destroy 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- φυγή phygḗ · G5437 · to run away, to flee, flight
- Greek φυγή renders Hebrew מָנוֹס in contexts denoting the act of fleeing or escape itself, capturing the core flight/refuge semantic shared across both lexemes.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4498. manos מָנוֺס noun masculine Amo 2:14 1 flight. 2 place of escape, refuge; —…
מָנוֺס noun masculine Amo 2:14
1 flight.
2 place of escape, refuge; — absolute ׳מ Amo 2:14 Amo 2:5t.; suffix מְנוּסִי 2Sa 22:3; Jer 16:19; —
1 flight, accusative of congnate meaning with verb with נוּס Jer 46:5.
2 (place of) escape; מ ׳אָבַד מִן escape perished from, = there was no escape for, Amo 2:14; Jer 25:35; Job 11:20; Psa 142:5; of ׳י as a refuge 2Sa 22:3 (|| משׂגב; וגו ׳מנום not || Psa 18:3; text disputed, Kit Bu retain in Sm, Klo Bae Löhr Du insert in Psalms; < strike out in Sm De Hup-Now HPS compare Che), Psa 59:17 (|| id.); Jer 16:19 (|| מעוז עז,).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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