בָּרַח H1272
- Home gloss
- bolt
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- flee
- Note
- To run off, of a slave or a fugitive: Hagar (16:6, 8), Jacob (27:43; 31:20–22), Moses (Exod 2:15), Jonah (1:3). The root gives בְּרִיחַ, the bar shot through the rings (Exod 26:28). "Flee" is נוּס's (33)
- Rulings
- 2, 33
Occurrences (2)
Genesis 16
- 16:6 And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your maid is in your hand; do to her the good in your eyes." And Sarai afflicted her, and she bolted from her face.
- 16:8 And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, where from have you come, and where to are you going?" And she said, "From the face of Sarai my mistress I am bolting."