חָפַז châphaz — properly, to start up suddenly, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, to fear
Translated in the KJV as haste, tremble.
a primitive root; properly, to start up suddenly, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, to fear.
châphaz in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 5Jussive 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›