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Strong's #213 - אוּץ
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- Strong
- to press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow
- (Qal)
- to press, hasten
- to be pressed, confined, narrow
- to hasten, make haste
- be narrow
- (Hiphil)
- to urge, insist
- to hasten
- (Qal)
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1018) ya (אתס ATs) AC: Press CO: Narrow AB: ?: The letter y represents the side as in the sides of a ravine. A narrow ravine where the walls press in.
J) yfa (אותס AWTs) AC: ? CO: Press AB: ?: The pressing into or on something causing it to move.
V) yfa (אותס AWTs) - Press: A pressing into something. KJV (10): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) haste, narrow - Strongs: H213 (אוּץ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect אָץ Joshua 10:13; Joshua 17:15; אַ֫צְתִּי Jeremiah 17:16 Participle אָץ Proverbs 19:2 3t. Proverbs; אָצִים Exodus 5:13; —
1 press, hasten (transitive but object not expressed) Exodus 5:13 (E).
2 (intransitive) be pressed, confined, narrow Joshua 17:15 כִי אָץ לְךָ הַראֶֿפְרַיִם.
3 hasten, make haste, followed by ל + Infinitive Joshua 10:13 לֹא אָץ לָבוֺא (J, of sun); Proverbs 28:20 לְהַעֲשִׂיר׳א; followed by מִן Jeremiah 17:16 מֵרֹעֶה׳לֹא א; followed by ב (of particular in which one hastens) Proverbs 19:2 (בְּרגְלַיִם); Proverbs 29:20 (בִּדְבָרִים); compare also Proverbs 21:5 וְכָלאָֿץ אַח לְמַחְסוֺר.
Hiph`il Imperfect וַיָּאִיצוּ Genesis 19:15; תָּאִיצוּ Isaiah 22:4 — hasten (transitive) followed by ב Genesis 19:15 (J); followed by ל + Infinitive ׳אַלתָּֿאלְנַחֲמֵנִי Isaiah 22:4. (May be Qal Imperfect, & verbי׳ע.)
אוּץ
(1) to urge, to press any one on (comp. Ch. אֲצַץ. Cognate roots, both in sound and in signification, are אָלַץ, לָחַץ, נָחַץ; comp. Gr. πιέζω), Exodus 5:13.
(2) to urge oneself, to hasten, Joshua 10:13; Proverbs 19:2, 28:20. Followed by מִן it is, to hasten backward, to withdraw oneself; Jeremiah 17:16, מֵרֹעֶה אַחֲרֶיךָ לֹא אַצְתִּי for מִהְיוֹת רֹעֶה “I have not withdrawn myself, that I should not be a shepherd (prophet) after thee.”
(3) to be narrow, strait, Joshua 17:15.
Hiphil, i.q. Kal No. 1, to urge, to press on; construed with a gerund of the verb, Isaiah 22:4 followed by בְּ of pers., Genesis 19:15.