Word

חָפַז

châphaz · H2648 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

to be afraid, to panic

Process by which humans or animals are overcome by a sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety resulting in a frenzied hurry to run away

Examples
Deuteronomy 20:3 “He shall say to them, ‘Hear, Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or be terrified by them,
2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was disabled in both feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled. But it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and could no longer walk. And his name was Mephibosheth.
2 Kings 7:15 They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away when they fled in a hurry. Then the messengers returned and informed the king.
to flee in panic

Action by which humans react to a sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety and hurry to run away

Examples
1 Samuel 23:26 Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to apprehend them.
Psalm 48:5 They saw it, then they were amazed; They were terrified, they fled in a hurry.
Psalm 104:7 They fled from Your rebuke, At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

How it’s used In 5 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

9 occurrences in 7 groups

נִיI 2
Not stated: they 2
נָּהshe 1
םthey 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מִןfrom+ קוֹלvoice, sound 1
לto/for+ הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
לto/for+ נוּסto flee 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 1
אַלnot, do not 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 4

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

מָלַט mâlaṭ · H4422 · to escape, to shoot out: Both lexemes describe hasty departure: חָפַז (châphaz, H2648)'s sense of making haste away overlaps with מָלַט (mâlaṭ, H4422)'s sense of escaping speedily.
נוּס nûwç · H5127 · to flee, to put to flight, to cause to flee: Both words denote rapid departure or flight and could substitute in contexts of hasty escape; חָפַז (châphaz, H2648) means "make haste (away)" and נוּס (nûwç, H5127) means "flee (away), put to flight."

Semantic domains 2 entries

Afraid002001002001: The word can denote trembling or panic accompanying hasty flight, as in Deuteronomy 20:3's charge not to be terrified before battle.
Flee002002001007: The word denotes fleeing in haste, as in 1 Samuel 23:26's account of David hurrying to escape Saul and 2 Kings 7:15's account of the Arameans fleeing in a hurry.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2648. chaphaz [חָפַז] verb be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm (Arabic hasten, incite,…

H2648. chaphaz
[חָפַז] verb be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm (Arabic hasten, incite, urge); —
Qal Imperfect יַחְמּוֺז Job 40:23; תַּחְמְּזוּ Deu 20:3; Infinitive construct suffix בְּחָפְזִי Psalm 31:28; Psa 116:11; בְּחָמְּזָהּ 2Sa 4:4; בְּחָפְזָם 2Ki 7:15 Qr (Kt הֵחָֽפְזֵם); —
1 be in a hurry or alarm, of hurried flight 2Sa 4:4; 2Ki 7:15; Infinitive with ב = noun, in my alarm Psa 31:23; Psa 116:11; be alarmed Deu 20:3 (|| תיראו), Job 40:23 (of hippopotamus)
Niph`al Perfect נֶחְמָּ֑זוּ Psa 48:6 (|| נִבְהֲלוּ) hurry away in alarm; so Imperfect יֵחָפֵז֑וּן Psa 104:7 (|| יְּנוּסוּן); Infinitive הֵחָֽפְזֵם 2Ki 7:15 Kt see above; Participle נֶחְמָּז 1Sa 23:26 hurried נ דוד ׳ויהי ללבת and David became hurried to go.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Afraid9 occurrences

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