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# חִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2440

**quickly** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

quickly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2440/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִישׁ: adv. quickly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2440/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. quickly, כי גז חישׁ ψ 90:10 of passing away of human life.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: quickly (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 90:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.10/#tree)

יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃

*Word for word:* the.days our.years our in them \[are\].seventy year\[s\] and if by strength(s) eighty year\[s\] and pride their \[is\].toil and trouble (dm) it.passes.away quickly and we flew.away

*JPS 1917:* The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2440.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2440/): 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).