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Hastely

בְּהִילוּStrong’s H0926

behilu (be-hi-lu)

Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Behilu is the Hebrew word usually translated “were terrified”, “are terrified” and “hasty”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.

“But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.”
Daniel 11:44 KJV
Meaning
  1. Haste, hastily
How it's translated
  • they were terrified 3
  • they are terrified 3
  • you be hasty 3
  • i am terrified 2
  • and they will be terrified 2
  • and he was terrified 1
  • he was terrified 1
  • and they hastened him 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 10
  • Job 5
  • 2 Chronicles 3
  • Esther 3
  • Ecclesiastes 3
  • Proverbs 2

17 books in all.

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Hebrew 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 “hasty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HASTY, adjective

Quick; speedy; opposed to slow.

  1. “Be not hasty to go out of his sight” Ecclesiastes 8:3
  2. Eager precipitate; rash; opposed to deliberate.“There is more hope of a fool than of him” Proverbs 26:12
  3. Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate.“He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly” Proverbs 14:29
  4. 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.