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# אוּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H213

**press** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

press [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/213/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוּץ: vb. press, be pressed, make haste [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/213/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. press, be pressed, make haste— Pf. אָץ Jos 10:13; 17:15; אַ֫צְתִּי Je 17:16 Pt. אָץ Pr 19:2 + 3 times Pr; אָצִים Ex 5:13;— press, hasten (trans. but obj. not expr.) Ex 5:13 (E). (intr.) be pressed, confined, narrow Jos 17:15 כִּי אָץ לְךָ הַר־אֶפְרַיִם. hasten, make haste, sq. ל + Inf. Jos 10:13 לֹא אָץ לָבוֹא (J, of sun); Pr 28:20 א׳ לַהַעֲשִׁיר; sq. מִן Je 17:16 לֹא א׳ מֵרוֹעֶה; sq. ב (of particular in wh. one hastens) Pr 19:2 (בַּרַגְלַיִם); 29:20 (בִּדַבָרִים); cf. also Pr 21:5 וַכָל־אָץ אַךְ לַמַחַסוֹר. Impf. וַיָּאִיצוּ Gn 19:15; תָּאִיצוּ Is 22:4—hasten (tr.) sq. ב Gn 19:15 (J); sq. ל + Inf. אַל־תָּא׳ לְנַחֲמֵנִי Is 22:4. (May be Qal Impf., & vb. ע׳י.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] hastens (3); I have hastened (1); \[were\] urging \[them\] (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 28:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.20/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ אֱ֭מוּנוֹת רַב־בְּרָכ֑וֹת וְאָ֥ץ לְ֝הַעֲשִׁ֗יר לֹ֣א יִנָּקֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.faithfulness(es) \[will.be\].great of.blessings and \[one.who\].hastens to gain.riches not he.will.go.unpunished

*JPS 1917:* A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

[Proverbs 21:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.5/#tree)

מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת חָ֭רוּץ אַךְ־לְמוֹתָ֑ר וְכָל־אָ֝֗ץ אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].plans of.a.diligent.\[person\] \[are\].only to profit and every \[one.who\].hastens \[is\].only to lack

*JPS 1917:* The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/213.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/213/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).