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Strong's #1280 - בְּרִיחַ
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1) bar
1a) of wood
1b) of city gates
2) of tribulation, a fortress, of the earth as a prison (figuratively)
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2038) hrb (ברהה BRHh) AC: Flee CO: Fugitive AB: ?
V) hrb (ברהה BRHh) - Flee: KJV (65): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) ee, chase, fain, flight, haste, reach, shoot - Strongs: H1272 (בָּרַח)
bm) hirb (בריהה BRYHh) - I. Fugitive: II. KJV (44): bar, fugitive, crooked, piercing, noble - Strongs: H1280 (בְּרִיחַ), H1281 (בָּרִחַ)
hm ) hrbm (מברהה MBRHh) - Fugitive: KJV (1): fugitive - Strongs: H4015 (מִבְרָח)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1. a. bar, of wood, joining boards of tabernacle Exodus 26:26,27 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:28,29 (twice in verse); Exodus 35:11; Exodus 36:31,32 (twice in verse); Exodus 36:33,34 (twice in verse); Exodus 40:18; Numbers 3:36; Numbers 4:31 (all P).
b. bar ( s) of city-gates Deuteronomy 3:5; Judges 16:8; 1 Samuel 23:7; 2 Chronicles 8:5; 2 Chronicles 14:6; id. of gates of Jerusalem Lamentations 2:9; also ("" מנעולים) Nehemiah 3:3,6,18,14,15 compare Psalm 147:13; compare Amos 1:5; Nahum 3:13; Jeremiah 49:31; Ezekiel 38:11; Jeremiah 51:30; bars of city-gates, נחשׁת׳ב 1 Kings 4:13, ברזל׳ב Isaiah 45:2 (of Babylon, broken before Cyrus); בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ Isaiah 15:5 read probably with ᵑ7 Di and others ׳בָּר see בָּרִיחַ; yet compare Che's critical note
2 figurative בַּרְזָל׳ב of distress, etc. Psalm 107:16; of fortress, אַרְמוֺן׳ב in simile Proverbs 18:19; figurative ׳ב of earth (pictured as house out of which Jonah is shut) Jonah 2:7. (Older usage singular of bar of door or gate, i.e. the great bar across the gate; so Deuteronomy 3:5; Judges 16:3; Amos 1:5; 1 Samuel 23:7; 1 Kings 4:13; Jeremiah 49:31; Proverbs 18:9; Job 38:10; 2 Chronicles 8:5; Ezekiel 38:11 Later plural Isaiah 45:2; Lamentations 2:9; 2 Chronicles 14:6; Nehemiah 3:3,6,13,14,15; Psalm 147:13, but also Nahum 3:13.)
בְּרִיחַ pl. בְּרִיחִים m.
(1) a cross-beam, a bar, which was passed from one side to the other through the rings of the several boards of the holy tabernacle, which were thus held together; it is so called from passing through or across, like transtrum for transitrum, Exodus 26:26, seq.; 35:11 36:31, seq.; Numbers 3:36, 4:31.
(2) a bolt, a bar, for shutting a door, Judges 16:3; Nehemiah 3:3, seq. etc. “The bars of the earth,” Jonah 2:7, are the bars of the door, in the depths of the earth, i.e. the entrance to Hades, i.q. בַּדֵּי שִׁאוֹל Job 17:16. Metaph. a bar is used for a prince, inasmuch as he defends a state (see בַּד Hosea 11:6); Isaiah 15:5, בְּרִיחֶיהָ עַד צֹעַר “her princes (flee) to Zoar.” Jerome vectes ejus. Perhaps the ellipsis of the verb, to flee, is too harsh, especially when there has been no previous mention of flight; and I would rather render with Ch., Saadiah, Kimchi, בריחיה fugitives, whether it be better to read בָּרִיחֶיהָ or to derive בְּרִיהֶיהָ from בָּרִיחַ with Kametz pure (of the form עָשִׁיר).
