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.

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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. Jeremiah 4:29 בֹּרַ֙חַת֙ bo.Ra.chat · An -ing word: simple action

    Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

  2. Jeremiah 26:21 וַיִּבְרַ֖ח vai.yiv.Rach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

  3. Jeremiah 39:4 וַֽ֠יִּבְרְחוּ Vai.yiv.re.chu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

  4. Jeremiah 52:7 יִבְרְחוּ֩ yiv.re.Chu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.

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