חוּשׁ chûwsh — to hurry
Translated in the KJV as haste, ready.
a primitive root; to hurry; figuratively, to be eager with excitement or enjoyment.
chûwsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 8Participle (passive) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (active) 1
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
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 them make haste.
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 1Cohortative 1
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›