בָּרִיחַ
bariach · fleeing, gliding
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1281 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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bariach (בָּרִיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fleeing, gliding”.
Fleeing, fugitive; said of the serpent of the sea (Job 26:13; Isaiah 27:1).
How to say it
ba·ri·ach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Escaping, slipping away.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fleeing ×2
- as fugitives ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 26:13
By his breath the heavens became beautiful; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
- Isaiah 27:1
On that day YHWH will punish, with his sword —the hard, the great, and the strong— Leviathan the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
- Isaiah 43:14
Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I have brought down as fugitives all of them, and the Chaldeans, in the ships of their shout of joy.