חָפַזchâphaz
be in trepidation, hurry, or alarm
Pronunciation: khaw-faz' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2648
Meanings
Qal
1. be in a hurry or alarm (2 Samuel 4:4; 2 Kings 7:15; Psalms 31:23)
Niph`al: hurry away in alarm, hurried (Psalms 48:6; Psalms 104:7; 2 Kings 7:15)
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 20:3 He will say to them, ‘Listen to me, all you men of Israel! Do not be afraid as you go out to fight your enemies today! Do not lose heart or panic or tremble before them.
- 1 Samuel 23:26 Saul and David were now on opposite sides of a mountain. Just as Saul and his men began to close in on David and his men,
- 2 Samuel 4:4 (Saul’s son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth, who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child’s nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)
- 2 Kings 7:15 They went all the way to the Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. The scouts returned and told the king about it.
- Job 40:23 It is not disturbed by the raging river, not concerned when the swelling Jordan rushes around it.
- Psalms 31:22 In panic I cried out, “I am cut off from the Lord!” But you heard my cry for mercy and answered my call for help.
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).