Definition

properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)

Etymology

from the same as H181 (אוּד);

Where the KJV renders it

• diligently
• especially
• exceeding(-ly)
• far
• fast
• good
• great(-ly)
• louder and louder
• might(-ily
• -y)
• (so) much
• quickly
• (so) sore
• utterly
• very ( much
• sore)
• well

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.