To urge
נָחַץStrong’s H5169nachats (na-chats)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nachats is the Hebrew word usually translated “urgent”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to urgeto be urgent (participle)
How it's translated
- urgent 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נָחַץ nachats · to urge
1) (Qal) to urge 1a) to be urgent (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “urge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
URGE, verb intransitive
[Latin urgeo. This belongs probably to the family of Gr. and Latin arceo.]
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to apply force to, in almost any manner.
- To press the mind or will; to press by motives, arguments, persuasion or importunity.
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To follow close; to impel.
All definitions and other forms of “urge”
- To labor vehemently; to press with eagerness.
- To press; as, to urge an argument; to urge a petition; to urge the necessity of a case.
- To importune; to solicit earnestly.
- To apply forcibly; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
URGE, verb intransitive
To press forward; as, he strives to urge upward.
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.