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Urge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to apply force to, in almost any manner.

2. And great Achilles urge the Trojan fate.

3. To press the mind or will; to press by motives, arguments, persuasion or importunity.

4. My broth did urge me in his act.

5. To provoke; to exasperate.

6. URGE not my father's anger.

7. To follow close; to impel.

8. Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

9. To labor vehemently; to press with eagerness.

10. Through the thick deserts headlong urg'd his flight.

11. To press; as, to urge an argument; to urge a petition; to urge the necessity of a case.

12. To importune; to solicit earnestly. He urged his son to withdraw.

13. To apply forcibly; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

14. To press forward; as, he strives to urge upward.

Urge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To press onward or forward.

2. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Urge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

3. To provoke; to exasperate.

4. To press hard upon; to follow closely

5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

Urge-wonder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sort of grain.

Urged [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pressed; impelled; importuned.

Urged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Urge

Urgence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Urgency.

Urgency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pressure; importunity; earnest solicitation; as the urgency of a request.

2. Pressure of necessity; as the urgency of want or distress; the urgency of the occasion.

Urgency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

Urgent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pressing with importunity. Exodus 12:33 .

2. Pressing with necessity; violent; vehement; as an urgent case or occasion.

Urgent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

Urgently [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With pressing importunity; violently; vehemently; forcibly.

Urgently [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an urgent manner.

Urger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who urges; one who importunes.

Urger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who urges.

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Genesis 33:11

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.

Exodus 12:33

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”

Numbers 22:37

And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”

Joshua 7:19

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

Joshua 15:18

And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

Judges 1:14

And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

Judges 16:16

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

Judges 19:7

And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.

The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.

Ruth 1:16

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

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 20:28

And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:

Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,

1 Samuel 21:8

And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.

Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business was urgent.”

2 Samuel 3:35

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 13:25

And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.

2 Samuel 13:27

But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.

2 Kings 2:17

And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.

2 Kings 5:16

But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.

2 Kings 5:23

And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.

2 Chronicles 18:2

And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.

And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him, and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.

Jeremiah 32:8

So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.