mush · depart, remove

What it means

mush (מוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “depart, remove”.

Depart, withdraw; also remove, take away.

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 shift from its place.
2. To remove something from its place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• depart ×10
• move ×4
• remove ×2
• cease ×1
• departed ×1
• he removes it ×1
• will give way ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Micah×2
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×2

• Exodus 13:22

  The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.

• Exodus 33:11

  And YHWH would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his companion. Then he would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from inside the tent.

• Numbers 14:44

  But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, though the ark of the covenant of YHWH and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp.

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the instruction shall not depart from your mouth, and you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosper, and then you will act wisely.

• Judges 6:18

  Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my offering and set it before you.” He said, “I will stay until you return.”

• Job 23:12

  From the commandment of his lips I have not departed; more than my portion I have stored up the sayings of his mouth.

• Psalms 55:11

  Calamities are within it; and oppression and deceit do not depart from its square.

• Proverbs 17:13

  Whoever returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

• Isaiah 22:25

  On that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, the peg that was driven in a secure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for YHWH has spoken.”

• Isaiah 46:7

  They lift it on the shoulder, they bear it, and set it in its place, and it stands; from its spot it does not move; also, if one cries to it, it does not answer; from his distress it does not save him.

• Isaiah 54:10

  For the mountains will move, and the hills will totter, but my loyal love will not move from you, and my covenant of peace will not totter,” says the one who has compassion on you, YHWH.

• Isaiah 59:21

  “As for me, this is my covenant with them, says YHWH: my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouth of your offspring, or from the mouth of the offspring of your offspring, says YHWH, from now and forever.”

• Jeremiah 17:8

  And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.

• Jeremiah 31:36

  “If these statutes depart from before me, declares YHWH, then also the offspring of Israel will cease from being a nation before me all the days.”

• Micah 2:3

  Therefore thus says YHWH: “Look, I am devising against this family an evil from which you will not remove your necks, and you will not walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

• Micah 2:4

  On that day one will take up against you a poem, and lament with a bitter lament and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; the portion of my people he changes; how he removes it from me! To the faithless he divides our fields.’

• Nahum 3:1

  Woe to the city of blood! All of it is full of lies and plunder; the prey does not depart.

• Zechariah 3:9

  For look, the stone that I have set before Joshua: on one stone seven eyes; look, I am engraving its engraving, declares YHWH Tsevaot, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

• Zechariah 14:4

  And his feet will stand on that day on the Mount of Olives, which is facing Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle toward the east and toward the west, making a very great valley; and half of the mountain will move toward the north, and its other half toward the south.

And 1 more times.