בָּרַח

ba.rach · to flee

Hebrew · Strong's H1272 · Verb · Sounds like: baw-rakh' · 65 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly; chase (away); drive away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste, reach, run away, shoot.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בָּרַח vb. go through, flee
Qal
1. go or pass through, of bar
2. flee
3. flee = hasten, come quickly
Hiph.
1. pass through
2. cause to flee, put to flight

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 19:12 וַיִּבְרַ֖ח vai.yiv.Rach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

  2. 1 Samuel 19:18 בָּרַ֜ח ba.Rach · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

  3. 1 Samuel 20:1 וַיִּבְרַ֣ח vai.yiv.Rach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?

  4. 1 Samuel 21:10 וַיִּבְרַ֥ח vai.yiv.Rach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  5. 1 Samuel 22:17 בֹרֵ֣חַ vo.Re.ach · An -ing word: simple action

    And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

  6. 1 Samuel 22:20 וַיִּבְרַ֖ח vai.yiv.Rach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

  7. 1 Samuel 23:6 בִּ֠בְרֹחַ Biv.ro.ach · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

  8. 1 Samuel 27:4 בָרַ֥ח va.Rach · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

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