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# דָּחַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1765

**drive** — used 4 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

drive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1765/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּחַף: vb. drive, hasten [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1765/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drive, hasten (late) (NH id., Aramaic דְּחַף)— Pt. pass. pl. דְּחוּפִים of runners Est 3:15; 8:14 (‖ מְבֹהָלִים). Pf. hasten one’s self, hurry נִדְחַף אֶל־ Est 6:12; נִדְחַף לָצֵאת 2 Ch 26:20 (‖ בהל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he hurried himself (2); hurried (2).

## In the verses

[Esther 6:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.12/#tree)

וַיָּ֥שָׁב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֶל־שַׁ֣עַר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְהָמָן֙ נִדְחַ֣ף אֶל־בֵּית֔וֹ אָבֵ֖ל וַחֲפ֥וּי רֹֽאשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.returned Mordecai to the.gate of the.king and Haman he.hurried.himself to house his mourning and covered of.head

*JPS 1917:* And Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

[Esther 8:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.14/#tree)

הָרָצִ֞ים רֹכְבֵ֤י הָרֶ֙כֶשׁ֙ הָֽאֲחַשְׁתְּרָנִ֔ים יָֽצְא֛וּ מְבֹהָלִ֥ים וּדְחוּפִ֖ים בִּדְבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְהַדָּ֥ת נִתְּנָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* the runners \[who\].rode of the.steed\[s\] (the) royal they.went.out hastened and hurried at the.word of the.king and the law it.was.given in Susa the citadel

*JPS 1917:* So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the castle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1765.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1765/): 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).