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Hurry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A driving or pressing forward in motion or business.

2. Pressure; urgency to haste.

3. We cannot wait long; we are in a hurry

4. Precipitation that occasions disorder or confusion.

5. It is necessary sometimes to be in haste, but never in a hurry

6. Tumult; bustle; commotion.

7. Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought.

Hurry [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.

2. The business is urgent; let us hurry

Hurry [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to drive or press forward with more rapidity; to urge to act or proceed with more celerity; as, to hurry the workmen or the work. Our business hurries us. The weather is hot and the load heavy; we cannot safely hurry the horses.

2. To drive or impel with violence.

3. Impetuous lust hurries him on to satisfy the cravings of it.

4. To urge or drive with precipitation and confusion; for confusion is often caused by hurry

5. And wild amazement hurries up and down

6. The little number of your doubtful friends.

7. To hurry away, to drive or carry away in haste.

Hurry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

Hurry [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

Hurry [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

2. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

3. To cause to be done quickly.

Hurry-skurry [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Confusedly; in a bustle. [Not in use.]

Hurry-skurry [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Confusedly; in a bustle.

Hurrying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Driving or urging to greater speed; precipitating.

Hurrying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Hurry

Hurryingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a hurrying manner.

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Genesis 19:22

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.

Judges 9:48

And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”

1 Samuel 9:12

And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:

“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

1 Samuel 20:6

If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’

1 Samuel 20:19

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:38

And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

1 Samuel 23:26

And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

2 Samuel 4:4

And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

2 Chronicles 35:21

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”

Esther 5:5

Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 6:10

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”

Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.

Psalms 55:8

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

Psalms 70:1

Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!

Psalms 70:5

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

Psalms 71:12

O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

Isaiah 5:19

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

Isaiah 52:12

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.