Strong's Hebrew: 2648. חָפַז (chaphaz) -- to be in trepidation, hurry or alarm

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Lexicon

chaphaz: to be in trepidation, hurry or alarm

Original Word: חָפַז
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chaphaz
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-faz')
Short Definition: alarm

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to be in trepidation, hurry or alarm
NASB Translation
alarm (2), alarmed (1), fled in alarm (1), haste (1), hurried away (1), hurry (1), hurrying (1), panic (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חָפַז] verb be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm (Arabic

hasten, incite, urge); —

Qal Imperfect יַחְמּוֺז Job 40:23; תַּחְמְּזוּ Deuteronomy 20:3; Infinitive construct suffix בְּחָפְזִי Psalm 31:28; Psalm 116:11; בְּחָמְּזָהּ 2 Samuel 4:4; בְּחָפְזָם 2 Kings 7:15 Qr (Kt הֵחָֽפְזֵם); —

1 be in a hurry or alarm, of hurried flight 2 Samuel 4:4; 2 Kings 7:15; Infinitive with ב = noun, in my alarm Psalm 31:23; Psalm 116:11; be alarmed Deuteronomy 20:3 ("" תיראו), Job 40:23 (of hippopotamus)

Niph`al Perfect נֶחְמָּ֑זוּ Psalm 48:6 ("" נִבְהֲלוּ) hurry away in alarm; so Imperfect יֵחָפֵז֑וּן Psalm 104:7 ("" יְּנוּסוּן); Infinitive הֵחָֽפְזֵם 2 Kings 7:15 Kt see above; Participle נֶחְמָּז 1 Samuel 23:26 hurried ללבת ׳ויהי דוד נ and David became hurried to go.

Strong's

make haste away, tremble

A primitive root; properly, to start up suddenly, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, to fear -- (make) haste (away), tremble.