| Easton's Bible Dictionary Genesis 4:12, 14, a rover or wanderer (Hebrews n'a); Judges 12:4, a refugee, one who has escaped (Hebrews palit); 2 Kings 25:11, a deserter, one who has fallen away to the enemy (Hebrews nophel); Ezek. 17:21, one who has broken away in flight (Hebrews mibrah); Isaiah 15:5; 43:14, a breaker away, a fugitive (Hebrews beriah), one who flees away. Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor. 2. (a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. 3. (n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice. 4. (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FUGITIVE fu'-ji-tiv (paliT, from palaT, "to escape"; na`, from nua`, "to waver"; nophel, from naphal, "to fall"; bariach, beriach and mibhrach, from barach, "to flee"):
One who flees from danger (Isaiah 15:5 Ezekiel 17:21); escapes from bondage (APC 2Macc 8:35 (as adjective)); deserts from duty (Judges 12:4 2 Kings 25:11 the King James Version; compare APC Judith 16:12 the King James Version), or wanders aimlessly (Genesis 4:12, 14). |  | Multi-Version Concordance Fugitive (12 Occurrences) Genesis 4:12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV) Genesis 4:14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV) Genesis 14:13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram. (See NAS) 2 Kings 9:15 and king Joram had returned to be healed in Jizreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your will, let not a fugitive escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jizreel. (DBY) Proverbs 28:17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him. (WEB NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. (WEB ASV DBY) Isaiah 16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the fugitive! (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 21:14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. (Root in WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 48:19 On the way stand, and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer, Ask the fugitive and escaped, Say, What hath happened? (YLT) Ezekiel 24:26 that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? (See RSV NIV) Ezekiel 24:27 In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. (See RSV) Ezekiel 33:22 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute. (See RSV) |
