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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #213 - אוּץ
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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.
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to hasten backward, to withdraw oneself; Jeremiah 17:16, מֵרֹעֶה אַחֲרֶיךָ לֹא אַצְתִּי for מִהְיוֹת רֹעֶה “I have not withdrawn myself, that I should not be a shepherd (prophet) after thee.”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.
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13