To dart
טוּשׂStrong’s H2907tus (tu-s)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tus is the Hebrew word usually translated “it rushes”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to dart, flutter, rush
How it's translated
- it rushes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
טוּשׂ tus · to dart
(Qal) to dart, flutter, rush
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dart” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ART, noun
[Gr., a spear or lance.]
- A pointed missile weapon to be thrown by the hand; a short lance.
- Any missile weapon; that which pierces and wounds.
All definitions and other forms of “dart”
D'ART, verb transitive
- To throw a pointed instrument with a sudden thrust; as, to dart a javelin.
- To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send; to emit; to shoot; applied to small objects, which pass with velocity; as, the sun darts his beams on the earth.
D'ART, verb intransitive
- To fly or shoot, as a dart; to fly rapidly.
- To spring and run with velocity; to start suddenly and run; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
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.