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# נָחַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5169

**urge** — 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

urge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5169/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָחַץ: vb. urge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5169/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. urge (?), whence (si vera l.);— Pt. pass. (active Pt. in u, according to BaNB 175), דְּבַר הַמֶּלֶךְ נָחוּץ 1 S 21:9 the king’s business was urgent (𝔊 κατὰ σπουδήν, A κατασπεῦδον). (Thes cp. Arabic نَحَضَ ursit instititque rogando \[Kam. Frey\]); text dub.; HPS נָאוֹץ (from אוץ), \> נחושׁ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: urgent (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 21:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ לַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ וְאִ֛ין יֶשׁ־פֹּ֥ה תַֽחַת־יָדְךָ֖ חֲנִ֣ית אוֹ־חָ֑רֶב כִּ֣י גַם־חַרְבִּ֤י וְגַם־כֵּלַי֙ לֹֽא־לָקַ֣חְתִּי בְיָדִ֔י כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה דְבַר־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ נָחֽוּץ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said David to Ahimelech and not there.\[is\] here under hand your a.spear or a.sword (dm) both sword my (and).as well.as weapons my not I.took in hand my (dm) it.was the.matter of the.king urgent

*JPS 1917:* And David said unto Ahimelech: 'And is there peradventure here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5169.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5169/): 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).