Hastely
בְּהִילוּStrong’s H0924behilu (be-hi-lu)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Behilu is the Aramaic word usually translated “haste”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.”
Meaning
- Haste, hastily
How it's translated
- in haste 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Aramaic dictionary
בְּהִילוּ behilu · hastely
haste, hastily Aramaic of ba.hal (בָּהַל "to dismay" H0926)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “haste” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HASTE, noun
- Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals; never to other bodies.
- Sudden excitement of passion; quickness; precipitance; vehemence.“I said in my haste all men are liars” Psalms 116:11
- The state of being urged or pressed by business; as, I am in great haste
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.