חִישׁ
chîysh · H2440 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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quickly
Process by which something happens with speed
ExamplesPsalm 90:10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is only trouble and tragedy; For it quickly passes, and we disappear.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 1 word
- מְהֵרָה mᵉhêrâh · H4120 · quickly, with haste, soon
- Both lexemes are temporal/speed adverbs with substantial gloss overlap (both include "soon" and related speed concepts).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Urge002003003023
- The adverb marks an action happening speedily or without delay, sharing the root sense of urgency with the verb "to hasten" (חוּשׁ (chûwsh, H2363)).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2440. chish חִישׁ adverb quickly, חישׁ נז כי Psa 90:10 of passing away of human life.
חִישׁ adverb quickly, חישׁ נז כי Psa 90:10 of passing away of human life.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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