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# הָדַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1920

**thrust** — used 11 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

thrust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1920/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָדַף: vb. thrust, push, drive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1920/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. thrust, push, drive (הֲדַף in 𝔗; Arabic هَدَفَ is ingressus ad aliquem fuit, propinquus fuit, also of time prope accessit)— Pf. 3 ms. sf. הֲדָפוֹ Nu 35:22 Je 46:15; 1 s. sf. וַהֲדַפְתִּיךָ consec. Is 22:19; Impf. 3 ms. יֶהְדֹּף Pr 10:3; sf. 3 ms. יֶהְדֳּפֶנּוּ Nu 35:20; sf. 3 mpl. יֶהְדֳּפֵם Jos 23:5; 3 mpl. sf. יֶהְדְּפֻהוּ Jb 18:18; 2 mpl. תֶּהְדֹּ֑פוּ Ez 34:21; Inf. הֲדֹף Dt 6:19; 9:4; sf. הָדְפָהּ 2 K 4:27;— thrust, push, subj. man, sq. acc. Nu 35:20, 22 (here fatally); subj. cattle, fig. of men, Ez 34:21 (instr. בְּכָתֵף; ‖ נָגַח); push away 2 K 4:27 (Gehazi, the Shunammite); thrust away (from oneself) fig. = reject, הַוַּת רְשָׁעִים Pr 10:3 (subj. י׳). thrust out, drive out, sq. מִן of place whence & acc. pers.; of י׳ driving out enemies of Isr. from Canaan Dt 6:19; 9:4 Jos 23:5; cf. also indef. subj. יֶהְדְּפֻהוּ מֵאוֹר אֶל־חֹשֶׁךְ Jb 18:18 (‖ וּמִתֵּבֵל יְנִדֻּהוּ); & Je 46:15 (where no pl. whence). Hence = depose Is 22:19 of י׳ deposing Shebna (sq. מִן of station).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 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 (4); I (1); drive (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.3/#tree)

לֹֽא־יַרְעִ֣יב יְ֭הוָה נֶ֣פֶשׁ צַדִּ֑יק וְהַוַּ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים יֶהְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* not he.allows.to.hunger Yahweh \[the\].appetite of.\[the\].righteous and.\[the\] desire of.wicked.\[people\] he.rejects

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but He thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.

[Jeremiah 46:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.15/#tree)

מַדּ֖וּעַ נִסְחַ֣ף אַבִּירֶ֑יךָ לֹ֣א עָמַ֔ד כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה הֲדָפֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* why? will.he.be.prostrated your.mighty \[ones\] not he.will.stand (dm) Yahweh he will.drive.him.out

*JPS 1917:* Why is thy strong one overthrown? He stood not, because the LORD did thrust him down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1920.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1920/): 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).