Definition

properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• be carried headlong
• fearful
• (cause to make
• in
• make) haste(-n
• -ily)
• (be) hasty
• (fetch
• make ready) quickly
• rash
• shortly
• (be so) soon
• make speed
• speedily
• straightway
• suddenly
• swift

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

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