To hasten
אוּץStrong’s H0213uts
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Uts is the Hebrew word usually translated “hastens”, “hasty” and “urged”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
Meaning
- To press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and hastens 2
- hasty 2
- and they urged 1
- pressing 1
- it hastened 1
- it is narrow 1
- you insist 1
- i have hastened 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Joshua 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 5:13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- Joshua 10:13And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
- Joshua 17:15And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
- Proverbs 19:2Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
- Proverbs 21:5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- Proverbs 28:20A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Hebrew dictionary
אוּץ uts · to hasten
1) to press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to press, hasten 1a2) to be pressed, confined, narrow 1a3) to hasten, make haste 1a4) be narrow 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to urge, insist 1b2) to hasten
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hasty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HASTY, adjective
Quick; speedy; opposed to slow.
- “Be not hasty to go out of his sight” Ecclesiastes 8:3
- Eager precipitate; rash; opposed to deliberate.“There is more hope of a fool than of him” Proverbs 26:12
- Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate.“He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly” Proverbs 14:29
- Early ripe; forward; as hasty fruit. Isaiah 28:4
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.