בָּרִיחַ
bârîyach · H1281 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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fleeing, elusive
Pertaining to the ability to move away quickly from dangerous location
ExamplesJob 26:13 “By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.
Isaiah 27:1 On that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
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fugitive
Pertaining to a person that is on the run from danger
ExamplesIsaiah 15:5 My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their collapse.
Isaiah 43:14 This is what the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And will bring them all down as fugitives, Even the Chaldeans, into the ships over which they rejoice.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּרִיחַfleeing 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Flee002002001007
- בָּרִיחַ describes something fleeing or gliding swiftly, as in Isaiah 27:1's "the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent" (הַבָּרִחַ), naming the creature's rapid, evasive movement.
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- The word also applies to human fugitives fleeing in defeat, as in Isaiah 15:5's "his fugitives are as far as Zoar" (בְּרִיחֵהָ), applying the fleeing-image to people escaping disaster.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1281. bariach I. [בָּרִיחַ] adjective fleeing ( = ֗֗֗ בַּרִּיחַ) בִָּרחַ׃ נָחָשׁ Job…
I. [בָּרִיחַ] adjective fleeing ( = ֗֗֗ בַּרִּיחַ) בִָּרחַ׃ נָחָשׁ Job 26:13 of eclipse-dragon, בָרִחַ נָחָשׁ לִוְיָתָן Isa 27:1 (probably figurative of Assyrians); as substantive בָּרִיחִים Isa 43:14 as fugitives (for other views compare Comm.); so probably also Isa 15:5 בריחיה, see בְּרִיחַ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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