חוּשׁ chush

Hebrew word for “to hasten” · Strong’s H2363 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

1) to haste, make haste, hurry; 1a) (Qal) to make haste; 1b) (Hiphil); 1b1) to show haste, act quickly, hasten, come quickly

Senses in the lexicon

• to hasten (19)
• to enjoy (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chush in context, with how often each is used:

• make haste ! 9
• will make haste 2
• hurried 1
• made haste 1
• agitate i 1
• has made haste 1
• want to make haste 1
• have made haste 1
• will hasten 1
• making haste 1
• will he enjoy 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 70 (2), Numbers 32 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), Judges 20 (1), 1 Samuel 20 (1), Job 20 (1), Job 31 (1), Psalms 22 (1), Psalms 38 (1), Psalms 40 (1)

Forms

• חושׁה 8
• חשׁים 1
• וחשׁ 1
• החישׁו 1
• חושׁי 1
• ותחשׁ 1
• אחישׁה 1
• חשׁתי 1
• יחישׁה 1
• יחישׁ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chush more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עֶזְרָה ezrah “help” 5
• נִי ni “me” 5
• אַל al “not” 4
• רָחַק rachaq “to remove” 2
• נָצַל natsal “to rescue” 2
• רֶגֶל regel “foot” 2
• עֵת et “time” 2
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 2
• קָרָא qara “to call” 2
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 2
• כֵּן ken “so” 2
• אֲנִי ani “I” 2

Key verses

The verses using chush that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 32:35 — To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon…
• Job 20:2 — Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
• Job 31:5 — If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
• Psalms 22:19 — But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
• Psalms 70:5 — But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
• Psalms 71:12 — O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
• Psalms 119:60 — I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
• Psalms 141:1 — [A Psalm of David.] LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
• Isaiah 5:19 — That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
• Isaiah 28:16 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth…
• Isaiah 60:22 — A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
• Habakkuk 1:8 — Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.