בָּרַח
ba.rach
to flee
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Occurrences in Scripture
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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.
Genesis 16:8He 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.”
Genesis 27:43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
Genesis 31:20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
Genesis 31:21So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31:22Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Genesis 31:27Why 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;
Genesis 35:1God 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.”
Genesis 35:7He 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.
Exodus 2:15Now 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.
Exodus 14:5The 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?”
Exodus 26:28The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
Exodus 36:33He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.
Numbers 24:11Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
Judges 9:21Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Judges 11:3Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
1 Samuel 19:12So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:18Now 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.
1 Samuel 20:1David 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?”
1 Samuel 21:10David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1 Samuel 22:17The 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.
1 Samuel 22:20One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
1 Samuel 23:6When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel 27:4Saul was told that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
2 Samuel 4:3and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).
2 Samuel 13:34But 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.
2 Samuel 13:37But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
2 Samuel 13:38So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
2 Samuel 15:14David 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.”
2 Samuel 19:9All 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.
1 Kings 2:7But 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.
1 Kings 2:39At 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.”
1 Kings 11:17Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.
1 Kings 11:23God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
1 Kings 11:40Therefore 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.
1 Kings 12:2When 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,
1 Chronicles 8:13and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
1 Chronicles 12:15These 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.
2 Chronicles 10:2When 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.
Nehemiah 6:11I 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.”
Nehemiah 13:10I 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.
Nehemiah 13:28One 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.
Job 9:25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Job 20:24He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
Job 27:22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
Job 27:22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
Job 41:28The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
Psalms 3:0a psalm of/ David when/ fled/ he from/ before Absalom son/ his
Psalms 57:0to the/ choirmaster al- tashcheth of/ David a miktam when/ fled/ he from/ before Saul in the/ cave