הָדַף
to drive out
‘to drive out’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘thrust’
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 3 times (27%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (27%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (18%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1920 appears — 11 distinct verses across 9 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 2 verses
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 6:19 לַ/הֲדֹ֥ף prep + Qal inf.cs to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 בַּ/הֲדֹ֣ף prep + Qal inf.cs Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
Joshua 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb הדף centers on the idea of “to drive out.” The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 11 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 35:20. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1920 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 2 verses 18%
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 18%
- Joshua 1 verse 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 45%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: He thrust 2×
- American Standard Version: He thrust 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Driving out 1×, Has driven them out 1×, Has thrust them down 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He pushes him 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1920 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1920 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1920 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1920 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- 1. thrust, push
- 2. thrust out, drive out
- 3. = depose
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[ הָדַף ] vb. thrust, push, drive
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דַּף
- (דפף, to hammer, join; cmp. דפן) board, plank; trnsf. a column in the scroll (later Hebr. a leaf of a book). Kel. XV, 2 ד׳ של נחתומות וכ׳ the (metal) plank of the bakers joined to the wall; B. Bath. 66ᵃ; 66ᵇ. Yad. IV, 8 בד׳ on the same column. Tosef. Gitt. IX (VII), 10; a. fr.—Pl. דַּפִּים, דַּפִּין. Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ; Nidd. 65ᵃ הד׳ the planks used as frame in the wine press. Num. R. s. 14 (ed. Amst. p. 258ᶜ) מקיים הד׳ keeps the joined boards (of the door) together. Men. 30ᵃ (יריעה) בת שלש ד׳ a sheet of parchment wide enough for three columns. Ib.ᵇ לבין הד׳ in the space between the columns. Neg. XI, 9 דַּפֵּי חלוק the strips (widths) of a shirt; a. fr.
הָדַף
- (b. h.) to thrust down, hurry. —Part. pass. הָדוּף, f. הֲדוּפָה hurried. Y. Bicc. II, 64ᵈ top מיתה ה׳ (Var. ח׳; cmp. M. Kat. 28ᵃ s. v. דָּחַף). [Pesik. R. s. 21 פנים הדופות, v. חָרַף.]
הֲדַף
- , to thrust. Targ. Y. Num. XXXV, 20 הדוף (read: הדפיה); ib. 22. Targ. Job XVIII, 18.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H1920 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ/הֲדֹ֣ף | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Deuteronomy 9:4 | 1 |
| הֲדָפ֑/וֹ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Numbers 35:22 | 1 |
| הֲדָפֽ/וֹ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Jeremiah 46:15 | 1 |
| וַ/הֲדַפְתִּ֖י/ךָ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Isaiah 22:19 | 1 |
| יֶ֭הְדְּפֻ/הוּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Job 18:18 | 1 |
| יֶהְדֳּפֵ֣/ם | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Joshua 23:5 | 1 |
| יֶהְדָּפֶ֑/נּוּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Numbers 35:20 | 1 |
| יֶהְדֹּֽף | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Proverbs 10:3 | 1 |
| לְ/הָדְפָ֗/הּ | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | 2 Kings 4:27 | 1 |
| לַ/הֲדֹ֥ף | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Deuteronomy 6:19 | 1 |
| תֶּהְדֹּ֔פוּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 34:21 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Numbers 35:20
- Deuteronomy 6:19
- Joshua 23:5
- 2 Kings 4:27
- Job 18:18
- Proverbs 10:3
- Isaiah 22:19
- Ezekiel 34:21
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
