Lexical Definition

‎חָפַז‎ châphaz (khaw-faz') to hurry ^H:V
a primitive root

(make) haste (away), tremble.

• properly, to start up suddenly, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, to fear

1) to hurry, flee, hasten, fear, be terrified
1a) (Qal) to be in a hurry, be alarmed
1b) (Niphal) to be in a hurry

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎חָפַז‎] verb be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm (Arabic hasten, incite, urge); —

Qal Imperfect ‎יַחְפּוֺז‎ Job 40:23 ‎תַּחְפְּזוּ‎ Deut 20:3 Infinitive construct suffix ‎בְּחָפְזִי‎ Ps 31:28; Ps 116:11 ‎בְּחָפְּזָהּ‎ 2Sam 4:4 ‎בְּחָפְזָם‎ 2Kgs 7:15 Qr (Kt ‎הֵחָֽפְזֵם‎); —

1. be in a hurry or alarm, of hurried flight 2Sam 4:4; 2Kgs 7:15 Infinitive with ‎ב‎ = noun, in my alarm Ps 31:23*; Ps 116:11 be alarmed Deut 20:3 (|| ‎תיראו‎), Job 40:23 (of hippopotamus) Niph`al Perfect ‎נֶחְפָּ֑זוּ‎ Ps 48:6* (|| ‎נִבְהֲלוּ‎) hurry away in alarm; so Imperfect ‎יֵחָפֵז֑וּן‎ Ps 104:7 (|| ‎יְּנוּסוּן‎); Infinitive ‎הֵחָֽפְזֵם‎ 2Kgs 7:15 Kt see above; Participle ‎נֶחְפָּז‎ 1Sam 23:26 hurried ‎ללבת‎ ‎׳‎‎ויהי דוד נ‎ and David became hurried to go.

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