נֵס
nēs
standard
Strong's H5251NounHebrewTWOT 1379a

נֵס (nēs) is a Hebrew noun meaning standard. It appears 20 times in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5251).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1379a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1379a)standard, ensign, signal, sign; flag, sail, flagstaff, token; banner, pole
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נֵס noun, masculine: standard, ensign, signal, sign

Strong's H5251 נֵס: a flag; also a sail; by implication, a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively, a token
KJV:banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1379: נָסַס nāsas — be high, conspicuous, that it may be displayed, raised, prominent; raise a beacon; lift up as an ensign

See it in Scripture

Numbers 21:8Isaiah 11:10Jeremiah 4:6

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