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הָדַף

hâdaph · H1920 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to push

    Action by which humans give other humans a violent shove

    Examples

    Numbers 35:20 ‘Now if he pushed him in hatred, or he threw something at him with malicious intent, and as a result he died,

    Numbers 35:22 ‘But if he pushed him suddenly, without hostility, or threw any object at him without malicious intent,

    2 Kings 4:27 But she came to the man of God at the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has concealed it from me and has not informed me.”

  2. to thrust out, to drive out

    Causative action by which someone causes others to move away from a certain place by force, as if by physically pushing them away

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 6:19 by driving out all your enemies from you, as the LORD has spoken.

    Deuteronomy 9:4 “Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them away from you, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to take possession of this land.’ Rather, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you.

    Joshua 23:5 “And the LORD your God, He will thrust them away from you and drive them from you; and you will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.

  3. to thwart

    Causative action by which someone cause someone else's plans to fail

    Examples

    Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not allow the righteous to hunger, But He will reject the craving of the wicked.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

11 occurrences in 7 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

10 occurrences in 6 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 6 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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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Near synonyms 2 words
טוּל ṭûwl · H2904 · to hurl, to cast, to hurl away
Both describe forceful removal or expulsion—violently casting or driving something away—overlapping in the sense of expelling something by force.
דָּחָה dâchâh · H1760 · to push, to thrust, to drive away
Both words denote forceful pushing or driving away and have overlapping meanings (thrust, drive away, cast away or out); both describe similar acts of expulsion.
Semantic domains 3 entries
Impact002001001024
הָדַף describes pushing or striking someone with physical force, an action of impact, as in the case law distinguishing a hostile push from an accidental one.
Move002002001012
הָדַף also describes driving out or expelling, forcing someone into departing movement, as enemies are driven out before Israel.
Fail002003003013
The expulsion הָדַף describes leaves its victim dispossessed and undone, a failure of standing tied to being thrust away from one's place.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1920. hadaph הָדַף verb thrust, .push, drive (הֲדַף in ᵑ7; Arabic is ingressus ad…
H1920. hadaph
הָדַף verb thrust, .push, drive (הֲדַף in ᵑ7; Arabic is ingressus ad aliquem fuit, propinquus fuit, also of time prope accessit) —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular suffix הֲדָפוֺ Num 35:22; Jer 46:15; Jer 46:1singular suffix וַהֲדַפְתִּיךָ consecutive Isa 22:19; Imperfect3masculine singularיֶהְדֹּף Pro 10:3; suffix 3masculine singular יֶהְדֳּפֶנּוּ Num 35:20; suffix 3masculine plural יֶהְדֳּפֵם Jos 23:5; Jos 23:3masculine plural suffix יֶהְדְּפֻהוּ Job 18:18; Job 18:2masculine plural תֶּהְדֹּ֑פוּ Eze 34:21; Infinitive הֲדֹף Deu 6:19; Deu 9:4; suffix הָדְפָהּ 2Ki 4:27; —
1 thrust, push, subject man, followed by accusative Num 35:20, Num 35:22 (here fatally); subject cattle, figurative of men, Eze 34:21 (instrumental בְּכָתֵף; || נָגַח); push away 2Ki 4:27 (Gehazi, the Shunammite); thrust away (from oneself) figurative = reject, רְשָׁעִים הַוַּת Pro 10:3 (subject ׳י).
2 thrust out, drive out, followed by מִן of place whence & accusative of person; of ׳י driving out enemies of Israel from Canaan Deu 6:19; Deu 9:4; Jos 23:5; compare also indefinite subject אֶלחֿשֶׁךְ מֵאוֺר יֶהְדְּפֻהוּ Job 18:18 (|| יְנִדֻּהוּ וּמִתֵּבֵל); & Jer 46:15 (where no plural whence). Hence
3 = depose Isa 22:19 of ׳י deposing Shebna (followed byמִן of station).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Impact5 occurrencesMove5 occurrencesFail1 occurrence

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

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