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title: מָנוֹס — flight · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָנוֹס (4498), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: flight. BDB 1906: n.m. flight escape, refuge. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָנוֹס

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«מָנוֹס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 4498 · **BDB:** מָנוֹס²

### Glosses

a.place.of.escape (5); my.place (2); flight (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4498/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. flight escape, refuge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4498/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Am 2:14 1. flight. 2. place of escape, refuge;—abs. מ׳ Am 2:14 + 5 times; sf. מְנוּסִי 2 S 22:3 Je 16:19;— flight, acc. cogn. c. נוּס Je 46:5. (place of) escape; אָבַד מ׳ מִן escape perished from, = there was no escape for, Am 2:14 Je 25:35 Jb 11:20 ψ 142:5; of י׳ as a refuge 2 S 22:3 (‖ משׂגב; מנוס וגו׳ not ‖ ψ 18:3; text disputed, Kit Bu retain in Sm, Klo Bae Löhr Du ins. in ψ; ψ 59:17 (‖ id.); Je 16:19 (‖ עז, מעוז).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָנוֹס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4498/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 25:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.35/)

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וְאָבַ֥ד מָנ֖וֹס מִן־הָֽרֹעִ֑ים וּפְלֵיטָ֖ה מֵאַדִּירֵ֥י הַצֹּֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.lost a.place.of.escape from the shepherds and escape from the.noble.\[ones\] of the.flock

*JPS 1917:* And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

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[Job 11:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.20/)

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וְעֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה וּ֭מָנוֹס אָבַ֣ד מִנְהֶ֑ם וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗ם מַֽפַּח־נָֽפֶשׁ׃פ

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] eyes of.wicked.\[people\] they.will.fail and a.place.of.escape it.will.be.lost from them and hope their \[will.be\].a.gasp of.life

*JPS 1917:* But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.

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