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הָדַף

hadaf · push, thrust

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1920 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

hadaf (הָדַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “push, thrust”.

Push: drive someone back or down with force.

How to say it

ha·daf

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 force someone out of their place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • he pushed him ×2
  • pushes ×2
  • I will thrust you ×1
  • They drive him ×1
  • push her away ×1
  • pushing ×1
  • thrust him down ×1
  • will push them back ×1
  • you push ×1

Where it appears

  • Numbers 35:20

    And if in hatred he pushed him or threw something at him lying in wait, and he died,

  • Numbers 35:22

    But if suddenly, without enmity, he pushed him, or threw at him any object without lying in wait,

  • Deuteronomy 6:19

    pushing all your enemies from before you, as YHWH has spoken.

  • Deuteronomy 9:4

    Do not say in your heart, when YHWH your Elohim pushes them out from before you, saying, “Because of my righteousness YHWH has brought me in to take possession of this land”; but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH is dispossessing them from before you.

  • Joshua 23:5

    And YHWH your Elohim, he will push them back before you and dispossess them before you, and you shall take possession of their land, just as YHWH your Elohim spoke to you.

  • 2 Kings 4:27

    She came to the man of Elohim on the mountain and took hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of Elohim said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, and YHWH has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

  • Job 18:18

    They drive him from light into darkness, and from the world they chase him away.

  • Proverbs 10:3

    YHWH will not let the soul of the righteous go hungry, but the craving of the wicked he pushes away.

  • Isaiah 22:19

    And I will thrust you from your position, and from your office he will pull you down.

  • Jeremiah 46:15

    Why has your mighty one been swept away? He did not stand, for YHWH thrust him down.

  • Ezekiel 34:21

    Because with side and with shoulder you push, and with your horns you gore all the weak until you have scattered them outside,