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Hebrew verb · H1272

בָּרַח

barachbaw-rakh'

to flee

63 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bârach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1272is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 20 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 47
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1272

to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly

The King James renders it: chase (away); drive away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste, reach, run away, shoot.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

barach is rendered "to flee". It stands 63 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 16:6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-seven different ways.

The first use

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

Genesis 16:6וַתִּבְרַ֖ח

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he fled13
  • fleeing5
  • he had fled5
  • and they fled4
  • flee4
  • he fled3
  • to flee3
  • he will flee2
  • and he ran away1
  • and I drove away him1
  • and she fled1
  • and they had fled1

and 20 more, 63 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בָּרָאbarato createUses55
בָּרָדbaradhailUses29
בָּרָקbaraqto use lightningUses21
בָּרַרbararto purifyUses18
בָּרbargrainUses14
בָּרִיאbarifatUses13
בָּרָהbarahto eatUses6
בָּרֹדbarodspottedUses4
בָּרִיחַbariachfleeingUses4
בָּרֶקֶתbareqethgemUses3
בָּרַדbaradto hailUses1
בָּרַקbaraqto flashUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

All 63, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

47 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיִּבְרַ֖ח5
  • וַיִּבְרַ֥ח4
  • בָּרַ֔ח3
  • בְּרַח־3
  • וַיִּבְרַ֤ח3
  • בָרַ֖ח2
  • וַיִּבְרַ֣ח2
  • לִבְרֹ֣חַ2
  • אֶבְרָֽח׃1
  • בִּ֠בְרֹחַ1
  • בְּבָרְח֖וֹ1
  • בְּבָרְחִ֕י1

and 35 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms14Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular10HVqp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp5Hc/Vqw3mp
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)5HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular4HVqv2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
  • Hc/Vhw1cs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vhw1cs/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common plural1HC/Vqc1cp
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs

Genesis

nine uses
  • “Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

    Genesis 16:6

    • וַתִּבְרַ֖חvativrachHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she fled
  • “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

    Genesis 16:8

    • בֹּרַֽחַת׃borachatverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: fleeing
  • So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

    Genesis 27:43

    • בְּרַח־berach-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: flee
  • Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

    Genesis 31:20

    • בֹרֵ֖חַvoreachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fleeing
  • So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

    Genesis 31:21

    • וַיִּבְרַ֥חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

    Genesis 31:22

    • בָרַ֖חvarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled
  • Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

    Genesis 31:27

    • לִבְרֹ֔חַlivroachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

    Genesis 35:1

    • בְּבָרְחֲךָ֔bevarechakhapreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: when fleeing you
  • There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

    Genesis 35:7

    • בְּבָרְח֖וֹbevarechopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when fled he

Exodus

four uses
  • When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

    Exodus 2:15

    • וַיִּבְרַ֤חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

    Exodus 14:5

    • בָרַ֖חvarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had fled
  • The central crossbar in the middle of the frames shall extend from one end to the other.

    Exodus 26:28

    • מַבְרִ֕חַmavriachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: passing through
  • He made the central crossbar to run through the center of the frames, from one end to the other.

    Exodus 36:33

    • לִבְרֹ֙חַ֙livroachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pass through

Numbers

one use
  • Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

    Numbers 24:11

    • בְּרַח־berach-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: flee

Judges

two uses
  • Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

    Judges 9:21

    • וַיִּבְרַ֖חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran away
  • So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

    Judges 11:3

    • וַיִּבְרַ֤חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled

1 Samuel

eight uses
  • So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

    1 Samuel 19:12

    • וַיִּבְרַ֖חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

    1 Samuel 19:18

    • בָּרַ֜חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled
  • Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”

    1 Samuel 20:1

    • וַיִּבְרַ֣חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

    1 Samuel 21:10

    • וַיִּבְרַ֥חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

    1 Samuel 22:17

    • בֹרֵ֣חַvoreachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fleeing
  • But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

    1 Samuel 22:20

    • וַיִּבְרַ֖חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • (Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

    1 Samuel 23:6

    • בִּ֠בְרֹחַbivroachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when fled
  • And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

    1 Samuel 27:4

    • בָרַ֥חvarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled

2 Samuel

six uses
  • because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.

    2 Samuel 4:3

    • וַיִּבְרְח֥וּvaiyivrechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”

    2 Samuel 13:34

    • וַיִּבְרַ֖חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    2 Samuel 13:37

    • בָּרַ֔חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled
  • After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

    2 Samuel 13:38

    • בָּרַ֖חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fled
  • And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”

    2 Samuel 15:14

    • וְנִבְרָ֔חָהvenivrachahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: so let us flee
  • And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.

    2 Samuel 19:9

    • בָּרַ֥חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has fled

1 Kings

six uses
  • But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

    1 Kings 2:7

    • בְּבָרְחִ֕יbevarechipreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when fled I
  • After three years, however, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

    1 Kings 2:39

    • וַיִּבְרְח֤וּvaiyivrechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.

    1 Kings 11:17

    • וַיִּבְרַ֣חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,

    1 Kings 11:23

    • בָּרַ֗חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled
  • Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.

    1 Kings 11:40

    • וַיִּבְרַ֤חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

    1 Kings 12:2

    • בָּרַ֔חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages), and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).

    1 Chronicles 8:13

    • הִבְרִ֖יחוּhivrichuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they put to flight
  • These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

    1 Chronicles 12:15

    • וַיַּבְרִ֙יחוּ֙vaiyavrichuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they put to flight

2 Chronicles

one use
  • When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.

    2 Chronicles 10:2

    • בָּרַ֔חbarachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had fled

Nehemiah

three uses
  • But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”

    Nehemiah 6:11

    • יִבְרָ֔חyivrachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he flee
  • I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.

    Nehemiah 13:10

    • וַיִּבְרְח֧וּvaiyivrechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they had fled
  • Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

    Nehemiah 13:28

    • וָאַבְרִיחֵ֖הוּvaavrichehuHc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I drove away him

Job

six uses
  • My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

    Job 9:25

    • בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּbarechuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have fled
  • Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

    Job 14:2

    • וַיִּבְרַ֥חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.

    Job 20:24

    • יִ֭בְרַחyivrachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

    Job 27:22

    • בָּר֥וֹחַbaroachverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly
    • יִבְרָֽח׃yivrachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will flee
  • No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

    Job 41:28

    • יַבְרִיחֶ֥נּוּyavrichenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes flee it

Psalms

one use
  • Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

    Psalms 139:7

    • אֶבְרָֽח׃ʾevrachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I flee

Proverbs

one use
  • He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

    Proverbs 19:26

    • יַבְרִ֣יחַyavriachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he drives away

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

    Song of Solomon 8:14

    • בְּרַ֣ח׀berachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hasten

Isaiah

two uses
  • All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

    Isaiah 22:3

    • בָּרָֽחוּ׃barachuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had fled
  • Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

    Isaiah 48:20

    • בִּרְח֣וּbirchuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: flee

Jeremiah

four uses
  • Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

    Jeremiah 4:29

    • בֹּרַ֙חַת֙borachatverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: fleeing
  • King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah found out about it, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.

    Jeremiah 26:21

    • וַיִּבְרַ֖חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled
  • When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.

    Jeremiah 39:4

    • וַֽ֠יִּבְרְחוּvaiyivrechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled
  • Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

    Jeremiah 52:7

    • יִבְרְחוּ֩yivrechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they fled

Daniel

one use
  • Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.

    Daniel 10:7

    • וַֽיִּבְרְח֖וּvaiyivrechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fled

Hosea

one use
  • Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

    Hosea 12:12

    • וַיִּבְרַ֥חvaiyivrachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fled

Amos

one use
  • And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.

    Amos 7:12

    • בְּרַח־berach-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: flee

Jonah

three uses
  • Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

    Jonah 1:3

    • לִבְרֹ֣חַlivroachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee
  • Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

    Jonah 1:10

    • בֹרֵ֔חַvoreachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fleeing
  • So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

    Jonah 4:2

    • לִבְרֹ֣חַlivroachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to flee

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