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# בָּרִחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1281

**fleeing** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fleeing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1281/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרִיחַ: adj. fleeing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1281/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. fleeing (= בַּרִּיחַ) נָחָשׁ בָּרִֽחַ׃ Jb 26:13 of eclipse-dragon, לִוְיָתָן נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ Is 27:1 (prob. fig. of Assyrians); as subst. בָּרִיחִים Is 43:14 as fugitives (for other views cf. Comm.); so prob. also Is 15:5 בריחיה, v. בְּרִיחַ.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fleeing (2); (the) (1); boats (1).

## In the verses

[Job 26:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.13/#tree)

בְּ֭רוּחוֹ שָׁמַ֣יִם שִׁפְרָ֑ה חֹֽלֲלָ֥ה יָ֝ד֗וֹ נָחָ֥שׁ בָּרִֽיחַ׃

*Word for word:* by wind his \[the\].heavens \[are\].clearness it.pierced hand his \[the\].snake fleeing

*JPS 1917:* By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent.

[Isaiah 43:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.14/#tree)

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה גֹּאַלְכֶ֖ם קְד֣וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְמַעַנְכֶ֞ם שִׁלַּ֣חְתִּי בָבֶ֗לָה וְהוֹרַדְתִּ֤י בָֽרִיחִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וְכַשְׂדִּ֖ים בָּאֳנִיּ֥וֹת רִנָּתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh redeemer your the.holy.\[one\] of.Israel for your.sake I.have.sent to Babylon and I.will.bring.down in (the) boats of.them all and.\[the\] Chaldeans in the.ships their.shout.of.joy their

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their shouting.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1281/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).