chafaz · hurry away in alarm

What it means

chafaz (חָפַז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hurry away in alarm”.

Rush off from fright.

How to say it

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

1. To move in haste, driven by fear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• alarm ×2
• they hurried away ×2
• as she hurried ×1
• haste ×1
• hurry ×1
• hurrying ×1
• panic ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4

• Deuteronomy 20:3

  and say to them, “Hear, Israel: you are drawing near today to war against your enemies. Do not let your heart grow soft; do not be afraid, and do not panic, and do not be terrified before them,

• 1 Samuel 23:26

  Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to capture them.

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan son of Saul had a son injured in the feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled; and it happened, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 2 Kings 7:15

  They went after them as far as the Jordan, and there was all the road full of clothes and gear that Aram had thrown away in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.

• Job 40:23

  Look, the river oppresses, and it does not hurry; it is confident though the Jordan bursts out to its mouth.

• Psalms 31:22

  And I said in my alarm, “I have been cut off from before your eyes.” But you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried for help to you.

• Psalms 48:5

  They saw; so they were astonished; they were dismayed; they hurried away.

• Psalms 104:7

  At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they hurried away.

• Psalms 116:11

  I said in my alarm, “Every human being is a liar.”