הָדַףHâdaph
thrust
Pronunciation: haw-daf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1920
Meanings
Qal
1. thrust, push (Numbers 35:20; Numbers 35:22; Ezekiel 34:21)
2. thrust out, drive out (Deuteronomy 6:19; Deuteronomy 9:4; Joshua 23:5)
3. = depose (Isaiah 22:19)
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 35:20 So if someone hates another person and waits in ambush, then pushes him or throws something at him and he dies, it is murder.
- Numbers 35:22 “But suppose someone pushes another person without having shown previous hostility, or throws something that unintentionally hits another person,
- Deuteronomy 6:19 You will drive out all the enemies living in the land, just as the Lord said you would.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 “After the Lord your God has done this for you, don’t say in your hearts, ‘The Lord has given us this land because we are such good people!’ No, it is because of the wickedness of the other nations that he is pushing them out of your way.
- Joshua 23:5 This land will be yours, for the Lord your God will himself drive out all the people living there now. You will take possession of their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.
- 2 Kings 4:27 But when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground before him and caught hold of his feet. Gehazi began to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone. She is deeply troubled, but the Lord has not told me what it is.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).