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To help

עוּשׁStrong’s H5789

ush

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Ush is the Hebrew word usually translated “hurry”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.”
Joel 3:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to lend aid, come to help, hasten
How it's translated
  • hurry 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Joel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    עוּשׁ ush · to help

    (Qal) to lend aid, come to help, hasten

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    HELP, verb transitive

    A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.

    1. To aid; to assist; to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding.
    2. To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
    3. To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
    4. To remedy; to change for the better.
    All definitions and other forms of “help”
    1. To prevent; to hinder.
    2. To forbear; to avoid.

    HELP, verb intransitive

    To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.

      HELP, noun

      Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.

      1. “Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man” Psalms 60:11
      2. That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.“God is a very present help in time of trouble” Psalms 46:1
      3. Remedy; relief.
      4. A hired man or woman; a servant.

      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.