To leap
פּוּשׁStrong’s H6335push
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Push is the Hebrew word usually translated “are skipping about”, “are scattered” and “paw ground”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;”
Meaning
- To spring about(Qal) to frisk, act proudly (fig.)
- (Niphal) to be scattered, be spread
How it's translated
- you are skipping about 1
- they are scattered 1
- and they paw ground 1
- and you will skip 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Nahum 1
- Habakkuk 1
- Malachi 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nahum 3:18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
- Habakkuk 1:8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
- Malachi 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Hebrew dictionary
פּוּשׁ push · to leap
1) to spring about 1a) (Qal) to frisk, act proudly (fig.)
פּוּשׁ push · to scatter
(Niphal) to be scattered, be spread
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEAP, verb intransitive
[Latin labor, perhaps. Heb.]
- To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
- To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.
- To rush with violence.“And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them -” Acts 19:16
- To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.
All definitions and other forms of “leap”
- To fly; to start. Job 41:19
LEAP, verb transitive
- To pass over by leaping; to spring or bound from one side to the other; as, to leap a wall, a gate or a gulf; to leap a stream. [But the phrase is elliptical, and over is understood.]
- To compress; as the male of certain beasts.
LEAP, noun
- A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.
- Space passed by leaping.
- A sudden transition of passing.
- The space that may be passed at a bound.
- Embrace of animals.
- Hazard, or effect of leaping.
- A basket; a weel for fish. [Not in use.]
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.