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To thrust

הָדַףStrong’s H1920

hadaph (ha-daph)

Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Hadaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “push him”, “pushed him” and “drive out”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

“But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;”
Numbers 35:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. To thrust, push, drive, cast away, cast out, expel, thrust away(Qal)
How it's translated
  • he will push him 2
  • he pushed him 1
  • to drive out 1
  • when drives out 1
  • he will drive out them 1
  • to drive away her 1
  • people drive him 1
  • he rejects 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 2
  • Deuteronomy 2
  • Joshua 1
  • 2 Kings 1
  • Job 1
  • Proverbs 1

9 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

הָדַף hadaph · to thrust

1) to thrust, push, drive, cast away, cast out, expel, thrust away 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to thrust, push 1a2) to drive out, thrust out 1a3) to depose

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “thrust” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

THRUST, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive thrust [Latin trudo, trusum, trusito.]

  1. To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.“Neither shall one thrust another” Joel 2:8
  2. To drive; to force; to impel.“THRUST in thy sickle and reap” Revelation 14:15
All definitions and other forms of “thrust”

    THRUST, verb intransitive

    To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

    1. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
    2. To intrude.
    3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on.

    THRUST, noun

    A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing.

    1. Attack; assault.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.