Strong's #1272: barach (pronounced baw-rakh')
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bârach
1) to go through, flee, run away, chase, drive away, put to flight, reach, shoot (extend), hurry away
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go, pass through
1a2) to flee
1a3) to hasten, come quickly
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to pass through
1b2) to cause to flee, put to flight
1b3) to drive away
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 64 times:
Genesis 16:6: "to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face."
Genesis 16:8: "camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee"
Genesis 27:43: "obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;"
Genesis 31:20: "him not that he fled."
Genesis 31:21: "So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river,"
Genesis 31:22: "day that Jacob was fled."
Genesis 31:27: "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth,"
Genesis 35:1: "unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother."
Genesis 35:7: "God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother."
Exodus 2:15: "Moses. But Moses fled of Pharaoh, and dwelt"
Exodus 14:5: "of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned"
Exodus 26:28: "bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end."
Exodus 36:33: "the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end"
Numbers 24:11: "Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo,"
Judges 9:21: "And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear"
Judges 11:3: "Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob:"
1 Samuel 19:12: "let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped."
1 Samuel 19:18: "So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told"
1 Samuel 20:1: "And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before"
1 Samuel 21:10: "And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul,"
1 Samuel 22:17: "they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me."
1 Samuel 22:20: "named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David."
1 Samuel 23:6: "when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down"
1 Samuel 27:4: "Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more"
2 Samuel 4:3: "And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this"
2 Samuel 13:34: "But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked,"
2 Samuel 13:37: "But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king"
2 Samuel 13:38: "So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years."
2 Samuel 19:9: "delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land"
1 Kings 2:7: "so they came me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother."
1 Kings 2:39: "years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son"
1 Kings 11:17: "That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants"
1 Kings 11:23: "the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord"
1 Kings 11:40: "Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak"
1 Kings 12:2: "in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence Solomon,"
1 Chronicles 8:13: "of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants"
1 Chronicles 12:15: "had overflown all and they put to flight all them of the valleys,"
2 Chronicles 10:2: "who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king,"
Nehemiah 6:11: "And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go"
Nehemiah 13:10: "and the singers, that did the work, were fled to his field."
Nehemiah 13:28: "priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from"
Job 9:25: "are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good."
Job 14:2: "He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
Job 20:24: " He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through."
Job 27:22: "upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand."
Job 27:22: "upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee he would fain flee out of his hand."
Job 41:28: "The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble."
Psalms 3:1: "A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD,"
Psalms 57:1: "Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave."
Psalms 139:7: "shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?"
