# H213 אוּץ

אוּץ (ʼûwts), Strong’s H213: to press; (by implication) to be close, hurry, withdraw KJV: (make) haste(-n, -y), labor, be narrow.. Occurs 10 times.

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*ʼûwts* — to press; (by implication) to be close, hurry, withdraw

KJV: (make) haste(-n, -y), labor, be narrow.

Occurs 10 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אוּץ] vb. press, be pressed, make haste
- Qal
- 1 press, hasten
- 2 (intr.) be pressed, confined, narrow
- 3 hasten, make haste
- Hiph. hasten

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 19:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=15) — When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are…
- [Exodus 5:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=13) — The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- [Joshua 10:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=13) — The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written…
- [Joshua 17:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=15) — Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land…
- [Isaiah 22:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=4) — Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the…
- [Jeremiah 17:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/17?v=16) — As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which…
- [Proverbs 19:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/19?v=2) — It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty with one’s feet and miss the way.
- [Proverbs 21:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=5) — The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
- [Proverbs 28:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/28?v=20) — A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
- [Proverbs 29:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/29?v=20) — Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.