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חוּשׁ

chush · hurry; be ready

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2363 · appears 20 times in the Bible

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What it means

chush (חוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hurry; be ready”.

Hurry, be quick: go in haste or with a willing spirit.

How to say it

chush

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 move or act quickly, losing no time.
  2. To enjoy what one eats and has.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • hurry ×10
  • hurried ×3
  • go ready ×1
  • haste ×1
  • hastening ×1
  • hurries on ×1
  • let him hasten ×1
  • will enjoy ×1
  • will hasten it ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Numbers 32:17

    But we will arm ourselves and go ready before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

  • Deuteronomy 32:35

    Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot slips; for near is the day of their calamity, and what is prepared for them hurries on.’

  • Judges 20:37

    And the ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; and the ambush marched and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Samuel 20:38

    Jonathan called after the boy, “Quickly, hurry, do not stand still!” And the boy of Jonathan gathered the arrows and came to his master.

  • Job 20:2

    “Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me answer, and because of the haste that is in me.

  • Job 31:5

    If I have walked with emptiness, and my foot has hurried to deceit,

  • Psalms 22:19

    But you, YHWH, do not be far; my strength, hurry to my help.

  • Psalms 38:22

    Hurry to my help, Adonai, my salvation.

  • Psalms 40:13

    Be pleased, YHWH, to deliver me; YHWH, hurry to my help.

  • Psalms 55:8

    I would hurry to get myself to safety from the rushing wind, from the tempest.”

  • Psalms 70:1

    For the director. Of David. For remembrance. Elohim, to deliver me, YHWH, hurry to my help.

  • Psalms 70:5

    And I am afflicted and needy; Elohim, hurry to me; my help and the one who brings me to safety are you; YHWH, do not delay.

  • Psalms 71:12

    Elohim, do not be far from me; my Elohim, hurry to my help.

  • Psalms 119:60

    I hurried and did not delay to keep your commandments.

  • Psalms 141:1

    A psalm of David. YHWH, I have called you; hurry to me; listen to my voice when I call to you.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:25

    For who will eat, and who will enjoy apart from me?

  • Isaiah 5:19

    who say, “Let him hurry, let him hasten his work, so that we may see it; and let it draw near and come, the plan of the Holy One of Israel, and we will know it.”

  • Isaiah 28:16

    Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, I have laid as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a foundation well founded; the one who believes will not hurry.

  • Isaiah 60:22

    The least will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation; I, YHWH, will hasten it in its time.

  • Habakkuk 1:8

    And swifter than leopards are its horses, and fiercer than wolves of the evening; and its horsemen gallop, and its horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.