# H1272 בָּרַח

בָּרַח (bârach), Strong’s H1272: to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly KJV: chase (away); drive away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste, reach, run…. Occurs 65 times.

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*bârach* — to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly

KJV: chase (away); drive away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste, reach, run…

Occurs 65 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בָּרַח vb. go through, flee
- Qal
- 1 go or pass through, of bar
- 2 flee
- 3 flee = hasten, come quickly
- Hiph.
- 1 pass through
- 2 cause to flee, put to flight

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 16:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=6) — But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt…
- [Genesis 16:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=8) — He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face…
- [Genesis 27:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=43) — Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- [Genesis 31:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=20) — Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
- [Genesis 31:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=21) — So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
- [Genesis 31:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=22) — Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
- [Genesis 31:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=27) — Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with…
- [Genesis 35:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=1) — God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…
- [Genesis 35:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=7) — He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the…
- [Exodus 2:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=15) — Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the…