Quick Definition
to rush
Strong's Definition
to course (like a beast of prey); by implication, to seek greedily
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: have appetite, justle one against another, long, range, run (to and fro).
TWOT Reference: 2460
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁקַק (sha.qaq) — to rush. 1) to run, run about, rush, run to and fro, be eager or greedy or thirsty 1a) (Qal) roving, ranging, longing, rush out upon (participle) 1b) (Hithpalpel) to rush to and fro, rush back and forth
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַשָּׁק
Move | verb qal
to rush upon, to rush forth = process by which animals move forward at great speed and with aggressive intent
Move | verb hit
to run to and fro = process by which vehicles move at great speed without an apparent destination
adj
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁקַק] vb. run, run about, rush Qal rush at, upon
Hithpalp. of chariots, they rush to and fro.
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