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. Nehemiah 6:11 יִבְרָ֔ח yiv.Rach · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

  2. Nehemiah 13:10 וַיִּבְרְח֧וּ vai.yiv.re.Chu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

  3. Nehemiah 13:28 וָאַבְרִיחֵ֖הוּ va.'av.ri.Che.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by me

    And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

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