Strong's #5132: nuwts (pronounced noots)
a primitive root; properly, to flash; hence, to blossom (from the brilliancy of color); also, to fly away (from the quickness of motion):--flee away, bud (forth).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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nûts
1) (Qal) to fly, flee
2) (Hiphil) to bloom, blossom
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 3 times:
Song of Solomon 6:11: "whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded."
Song of Solomon 7:12: "whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves."
Lamentations 4:15: "touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen,"