בָּרַח
ba.rach (H1272)
to flee
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# The Hebrew Word "Barach" (בָּרַח): Flight and Escape The Hebrew verb *barach* carries the fundamental meaning of "to flee," denoting physical movement away from a threatening situation or person. With 65 occurrences across the biblical text, this word represents a common and straightforward concept: the act of running away or escaping. The frequency of its use suggests that narratives involving flight—whether from danger, enemies, or divine judgment—formed a significant part of biblical storytelling and historical accounts. The word's prevalence in the biblical corpus indicates that fleeing functioned as both a practical response to immediate danger and a recurring dramatic element in narratives. The consistent definition across its numerous appearances suggests a semantic stability without complicated secondary meanings; *barach* primarily describes the physical action itself rather than abstract concepts. This directness makes it a reliable term for describing moments when characters or peoples sought safety by departing from perilous circumstances.
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But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.
Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
Saul was told that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).
But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.
But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.
God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.
One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
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to the/ choirmaster al- tashcheth of/ David a miktam when/ fled/ he from/ before Saul in the/ cave
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
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