Strong's #213: 'uwts (pronounced oots)

a primitive root; to press; (by implication) to be close, hurry, withdraw:--(make) haste(-n, -y), labor, be narrow.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ûts

1) to press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to press, hasten

1a2) to be pressed, confined, narrow

1a3) to hasten, make haste

1a4) be narrow

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to urge, insist

1b2) to hasten

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Genesis 19:15: "the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take"
Exodus 5:13: "And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfill your daily tasks,"
Joshua 10:13: "stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."
Joshua 17:15: "and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow"
Proverbs 19:2: "knowledge, good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth."
Proverbs 21:5: "tend only to plenteousness; that is hasty only to want."
Proverbs 28:20: "man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent."
Proverbs 29:20: "Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? of a fool than of"
Isaiah 22:4: "I, Look away from bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because"
Jeremiah 17:16: "As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor thee: neither have I desired"