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# נֵס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5251

**standard** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

standard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5251/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵס²: standard, ensign, signal, sign [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5251/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] standard, ensign, signal, sign (NH id., flag, usually sign, i.e. miracle; 𝔗 נֵס, נִסָּא sign, miracle);—נ׳ abs. Nu 21:8 +; cstr. Is 31:9; sf. נִסִּי Ex 17:15; Is 49:22;— standard, as rallying-point, י׳ נִסִּי Ex 17:15 (E), י׳ my standard (name of altar); conspicuously set on hill Is 30:17 (sim. of solitariness; ‖ תֹּרֶן עַל־רֹאשׁ הָהָר); signal of war \[v. SchumacherZPV ix. 232, Across the Jordan, 104 f.\] (especially to the nations, for destruction or deliverance of Judah, Is Je), נָשָׂא נ׳ לַגּוֹיִם Is 5:26; 11:12 cf. 18:3 (on mts., ‖ תָּקַע שׁוֹפָר); אֶל־עַמִּים אָרִים נ׳ 49:22 (‖ אֶשָּׂא אֶל־גּוֹיִם יָדִי),—in all these subj. י׳; cf. עֹמֵד לְנֵס עַמִּים Is 11:10 (of Mess. kg.); שְׂאוּ נ׳ 13:2 (on mt.) 31:9, Je 50:2; 51:12 (c. אֶל־ against), v 27 (‖ תִּקְעוּ שׁוֹפָר בַּגּוֹיִם), הָרִימוּ נ׳ עַל־עַמִּים Is 62:10, cf. Je 4:21 (‖ קוֹל שׁוֹפָר); נָתַתָּה … נ׳ לְהִתְנוֹסֵס ψ 60:6 thou hast set a standard (only) for fleeing. signal, שְׂאוּ נ׳ צִיּ֫וֹנָה Je 4:6 (i.e. to direct refugees to Zion). standard, as pole, supporting serpent of bronze Nu 21:8, 9 (JE). ensign, signal, שֵׁשׁ … מִמִּצְרַיִם הָיָה מִפְרָשֵׁךְ לִהְיוֹת לָךְ לְנֵס Ez 27:7 byssus from Egypt was thy sail, to serve thee for an ensign (so DaToy; on lack of pennon on ancient ships v. Co; \> del. Co Berthol); so (since sails were the only ensign) = sail Is 33:23 (Che Di al.; \> pennon Ges Hi Ew De Du). sign (cf. NH) = warning Nu 26:10 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a standard (14); standard (4); \[the\] sail (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.21/#tree)

עַד־מָתַ֖י אֶרְאֶה־נֵּ֑ס אֶשְׁמְעָ֖ה ק֥וֹל שׁוֹפָֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* until when? will.I.see a.standard will.I.hear \[the\].sound of.a.trumpet

*JPS 1917:* How long shall I see the standard, shall I hear the sound of the horn?

[Exodus 17:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.15/#tree)

וַיִּ֥בֶן מֹשֶׁ֖ה מִזְבֵּ֑חַ וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ יְהוָ֥ה ׀ נִסִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.built Moses an.altar and he.called name its Yahweh standard \[is\].my

*JPS 1917:* And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Adonai-nissi.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5251.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5251/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).