Word

אוּץ

ʼûwts · H213 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

to be in haste, to hurry

State in which humans feel pressed to act quickly; often associated with a lack of wisdom

Examples
Joshua 10:13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. Is it not written in the Book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.
Proverbs 19:2 Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, And one who hurries his footsteps errs.
Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent certainly lead to advantage, But everyone who is in a hurry certainly comes to poverty.
to try hard

State in which humans to feel pressed to act

Examples
Isaiah 22:4 Therefore I say, “Look away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
to be urgent

Causative action by which humans put pressure on other humans to act quickly

Examples
Genesis 19:15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Exodus 5:13 And the taskmasters pressed them, saying, “Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw.”
to be too small

Literally: to be pressed; hence: state in which an area is too small in size to be able to accomodate its content

Examples
Joshua 17:15 And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

9 occurrences in 7 groups

Not stated (participle) 3
הַרmountain 1
מֲלְאָךְmessenger, angel 1
נָגַשׂtaskmaster 1
אֲנִיI 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 12 groups

Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 2
אַלnot, do not 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חָטָאto sin 1
נָקָהto be innocent, to go unpunished 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מַחְסוֹרneed, poverty, lack 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

צוּק tsûwq · H6693 · to nag, to pester, to oppress: Both touch on the sense of pressure or constraint—אוּץ (ʼûwts, H213) narrowness or haste, צוּק (tsûwq, H6693) to constrain, straiten, or distress—suggesting a shared sense of being pressed or limited, though the overlap is modest given צוּק (tsûwq, H6693)'s broader range of distress-related meanings.
מַהֵר mahêr · H4118 · to act quickly, to hasten, to be fearful: Both words denote speed or urgency, as near synonyms in Hebrew (one a verb meaning "to hasten," the other an adverb or adjective meaning "quick, hasty").

Semantic domains 2 entries

Urge002003003023: אוּץ describes urging or pressing someone to act quickly, as the angels urging Lot to flee Sodom.
Little002001001038: The word can also describe something narrow or constrained, a related sense of pressure or limitation.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H213. uts [אוּץ] verb press, be pressed, make haste — Qal Perfect אָץ Jos 10:13; Jos…

H213. uts
[אוּץ] verb press, be pressed, make haste —
Qal Perfect אָץ Jos 10:13; Jos 17:15; אַ֫צְתִּי Jer 17:16 Participle אָץ Pro 19:2-3t. Proverbs; אָצִים Exo 5:13; —
1 press, hasten (transitive but object not expressed) Exo 5:13 (E).
2 (intransitive) be pressed, confined, narrow Jos 17:15 הַראֶֿפְרַיִם לְךָ אָץ כִי.
3 hasten, make haste, followed by ל + Infinitive Jos 10:13 לָבוֺא אָץ לֹא (J, of sun); Pro 28:20 ׳א לְהַעֲשִׂיר; followed by מִן Jer 17:16 א ׳לֹא מֵרֹעֶה; followed by ב (of particular in which one hastens) Pro 19:2 (בְּרגְלַיִם); Pro 29:20 (בִּדְבָרִים); compare also Pro 21:5 לְמַחְסוֺר אַח וְכָלאָֿץ.
Hiph`il Imperfect וַיָּאִיצוּ Gen 19:15; תָּאִיצוּ Isa 22:4 — hasten (transitive) followed by ב Gen 19:15 (J); followed by ל + Infinitive לְנַחֲמֵנִי ׳אַלתָּֿא Isa 22:4. (May be Qal Imperfect, & verbי׳ע.)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Little1 occurrence Urge9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0