Rushing
מַשָּׁקStrong’s H4944mashshaq (mash-shaq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mashshaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “like rushing of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.”
Meaning
- Running, rushing
How it's translated
- like rushing of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַשָּׁק mashshaq · rushing
running, rushing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rushing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RUSH'ING, participle present
tense Moving forward with impetuosity.
All definitions and other forms of “rushing”
RUSH'ING, noun
A violent driving of any thing; rapid or tumultuous course.
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.