shaqaq (to rush) · Rightly

Meaning

To run, run about, rush, run to and fro, be eager or greedy or thirsty(Qal) roving, ranging, longing, rush out upon (participle) · (Hithpalpel) to rush to and fro, rush back and forth

How it's translated

longing 2
rushing 2
they rush 1
they rush around 1

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

Where it's used most

Isaiah 2
Psalms 1
Proverbs 1
Joel 1
Nahum 1

5 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Proverbs 28:15As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Isaiah 29:8It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Isaiah 33:4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Joel 2:9They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Nahum 2:4The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

Hebrew dictionary

שָׁקַק shaqaq · to rush

1) to run, run about, rush, run to and fro, be eager or greedy or thirsty 1a) (Qal) roving, ranging, longing, rush out upon (participle) 1b) (Hithpalpel) to rush to and fro, rush back and forth

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

RUSH, noun

[Heb. usually rendered sea-weed, and applied to the Arabic gulf, This correspondence deserves notice, as illustrating certain passages in the Scriptures.]

A plant of the genus Juncus of many species.
Any thing proverbially worthless or of trivial value.

All definitions and other forms of “rush”

RUSH, verb intransitive

To move or drive forward with impetuosity, violence and tumultuous rapidity; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice; winds rush through the forest.
To enter with undue eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush into business or speculation; to rush into the ministry.

RUSH, verb transitive

To push forward with violence. [Not used.]

RUSH, noun

A driving forward with eagerness and haste; a violent motion or course; as a rush of troops; a rush of winds.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.