אוּץ ʼûwts — to press
Translated in the KJV as haste(-n, -y), labor, be narrow.
a primitive root; to press; (by implication) to be close, hurry, withdraw.
ʼûwts in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 5Perfect (qatal) 3
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1Jussive 1
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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 ›