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To push

יָרַטStrong’s H3399

yarat (ya-rat)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yarat is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is precipitate” and “casts me”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:”
Numbers 22:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. To precipitate, be precipitate, push headlong, drive recklessly
  2. To wring out
How it's translated
  • it is precipitate 1
  • he casts me 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 1
  • Job 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

יָרַט yarat · to push

to precipitate, be precipitate, push headlong, drive recklessly

רָטָה ratah · to wring

to wring out

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “push” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PUSH, verb transitive

  1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; or to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; opposed to draw.
  2. To butt; to strike with the end of the horns; to thrust the points of horns against.
  3. To press or urge forward; as, to push an objection too far.
  4. To urge; to drive.
All definitions and other forms of “push”
  1. To enforce; to press; to drive to a conclusion.
  2. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

PUSH, verb intransitive

To make a thrust; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

  1. To make an effort.
  2. To make an attack.“The king of the south shall push at him” Daniel 11:40
  3. To burst out.

PUSH, noun

A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

  1. Any pressure, impulse or force applied; as, to give the ball the first push
  2. An assault or attack.
  3. A forcible onset; a vigorous effort.
  4. Exigence; trial; extremity.
  5. A sudden emergence.
  6. A little swelling or pustule; a wheal; a pimple; an eruption.

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.