uts · hurry, urge

What it means

uts (אוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hurry, urge”.

Urge on, press someone to hurry; be in haste.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To hurry someone.
2. To do something too fast.
3. To be too small, cramped.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hurry ×2
• whoever hurries ×2
• hasty ×1
• hurried ×1
• kept pressing them ×1
• too narrow ×1
• urged ×1
• who hurries ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Joshua×2
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 19:15

  As the dawn came up, the messengers urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.”

• Exodus 5:13

  The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Complete your work, each day’s task on its day, just as when there was straw.”

• Joshua 10:13

  And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of the Upright? The sun stopped in the middle of the heavens and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.

• Joshua 17:15

  And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear ground for yourself there in the land of the Perizzite and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Proverbs 19:2

  Also, for a soul without knowledge it is not good, and whoever hurries with his feet sins.

• Proverbs 21:5

  The thoughts of the diligent lead only to profit, but everyone who hurries only to want.

• Proverbs 28:20

  A man of faithfulness is rich in blessings, but whoever hurries to get rich will not go unpunished.

• Proverbs 29:20

  Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a senseless man than for him.

• Isaiah 22:4

  Therefore I said, “Look away from me; let me be bitter in weeping; do not hurry to comfort me over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”

• Jeremiah 17:16

  But I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you, and the day beyond remedy I have not desired; you know it; what comes out of my lips has been before your face.