Hastely
בְּהִילוּStrong’s H0926behilu (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 45:3And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
- Exodus 15:15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
- Judges 20:41And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
- 1 Samuel 28:21And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
- 2 Samuel 4:1And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
- 2 Chronicles 26:20And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
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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.
- “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.