טוּשׂ ṭûws — to pounce as a bird of prey
Translated in the KJV as haste.
a primitive root; to pounce as a bird of prey.
ṭûws in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יָט֥וּשׂ Job 9:26 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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 ›