Quick Definition
to hurry
Strong's Definition
properly, to start up suddenly, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, to fear
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (make) haste (away), tremble.
TWOT Reference: 708
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to hurry, flee, hasten, fear, be terrified
1a) (Qal) to be in a hurry, be alarmed
1b) (Niphal) to be in a hurry
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָפַז (cha.phaz) — to hurry. 1) to hurry, flee, hasten, fear, be terrified 1a) (Qal) to be in a hurry, be alarmed 1b) (Niphal) to be in a hurry
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · חִפָּזֹון
1 2KI 7:15 MT-Q בְּחָפְזָם = qal | MT-K בְּהֵחָפְזָם = niph. 2 2KI 7:15 MT-K בְּהֵחָפְזָם = niph. | MT-Q בְּחָפְזָם = qal
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָפַז] vb. be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm Qal be in a hurry or alarm, of hurried flight
Niph. hurry away in alarm
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