Lexical Definition

‎נוּץ‎ nûwts (noots) to flee ^H:V
a primitive root

flee away, bud (forth).

• properly, to flash
• hence, to blossom (from the brilliancy of color)
• also, to fly away (from the quickness of motion)

1) (Qal) to fly, flee
2) (Hiphil) to bloom, blossom

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎נָצָה‎] verb fly (?); — only Qal Perfect 3 plural (si vera lectio) ‎נָצ֫וּ גַּםנָֿ֑עוּ‎ Lam 4:15 (of homeless exiles); text very dubious; read perhaps‎נָ֫דוּ‎ (compare Gen 4:12; Gen 4:14), so Bu; Löhr (more venturesomely) ‎כִּי לֹא יִמְצְאוּ‎ ‎מָנוֺחַ‎; Buhl^{13 perhaps} ‎כִּי גַּם נָָֽגְעוּ‎.

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