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# חָפַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2648

**be in trepidation** — used 9 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

be in trepidation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2648/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפַז: vb. be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2648/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm (Arabic حَفَزَ hasten, incite, urge);— Impf. יַחְפּוֹז Jb 40:23; תַּחְפְּזוּ Dt 20:3; Inf. cstr. sf. בְּחָפְזִי ψ 31:23; 116:11; בְּחָפְזָהּ 2 S 4:4; בְּחָפְזָם 2 K 7:15 Qr (Kt הֵחָֽפְזֵם);— be in a hurry or alarm, of hurried flight 2 S 4:4 2 K 7:15; Inf. c. ב = noun, in my alarm ψ 31:23; 116:11; be alarmed Dt 20:3 (‖ תיראו), Jb 40:23 (of hippopot.) Pf. נֶחְפָּ֑זוּ ψ 48:6 (‖ נִבְהֲלוּ) hurry away in alarm; so Impf. יֵחָפֵז֑וּן ψ 104:7 (‖ יְנוּסוּן); Inf. הֵחָֽפְזֵם 2 K 7:15 Kt v. supr.; Pt. נֶחְפָּז 1 S 23:26 hurried ויהי דוד נ׳ ללכת and David became hurried to go.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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: I (2); they (2); hurrying away (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 48:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.6/#tree)

הֵ֣מָּה רָ֭אוּ כֵּ֣ן תָּמָ֑הוּ נִבְהֲל֥וּ נֶחְפָּֽזוּ׃

*Word for word:* they they.saw thus they.were.astonished they.were.terrified they.hurried.away

*JPS 1917:* They saw, straightway they were amazed; they were affrighted, they hasted away.

[Psalms 116:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.11/#tree)

אֲ֭נִי אָמַ֣רְתִּי בְחָפְזִ֑י כָּֽל־הָאָדָ֥ם כֹּזֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* I I.said when I was.making.haste every (the) person \[is\].a.liar

*JPS 1917:* I said in my haste: 'All men are liars.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2648.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2648/): 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).