Haste
King James Dictionary [1]
Haste n.
1. Celerity of motion speed swiftness dispatch expedition applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals never to other bodies. We never say, a ball flies with haste.
The king's business required haste. 50Sam 21
2. Sudden excitement of passion quickness precipitance vehemence.
I said in my haste, all men are liars. Psalms 116
3. The state of being urged or pressed by business as, I am in great haste.
HASTE
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
(2): ( n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; - applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
(3): ( n.) To hasten; to hurry.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
hāst ( חפז , ḥāphaz , חוּשׁ , ḥūsh , מהר , māhar ; σπεύδω , speúdō ): "Haste" (from a root meaning "to pursue") implies "celerity of motion."
(1) The noun occurs as translation of māhar , "to hasten," etc. ( Exodus 10:16; Exodus 12:33 , "in haste"); of ḥāphaz , "to make haste" ( 2 Kings 7:15; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 116:11 , "I said in my haste (the Revised Version margin "alarm"), All men are liars"); of ḥippāzōn , a "hasty flight" ( Exodus 12:11; Deuteronomy 16:3; Isaiah 52:12 ); of nāḥac , "to be urgent" ( 1 Samuel 21:8 , "The king's business required haste").
(2) "Haste" as a verb is transitive and intrans; instances of the transitive use are, 'ūc , "to hasten," "press" ( Exodus 5:13 , "And the taskmasters hasted them," the Revised Version (British and American) "were urgent"); ḥūsh , "to make haste" ( Isaiah 5:19 ); māhar ( 2 Chronicles 24:5 twice); shāḳadh , "to watch," "to fix one's attention" on anything ( Jeremiah 1:12 the King James Version, "I will hasten my word"); māhı̄r , "hasting" ( Isaiah 16:5 , "hasting righteousness," the Revised Version (British and American) "swift to do"). The intransitive use is more frequent and represents many different words.
Hasty also occurs in several instances ( Proverbs 21:5; Proverbs 29:20 , 'ūc , etc.); in Isaiah 28:4 , bikkūr , "first-fruit," is translated "hasty fruit," the Revised Version (British and American) "first-ripe fig."
The Revised Version (British and American) has "Haste ye" for "assemble yourselves" ( Joel 3:11 margin, as the King James Version); "make haste" for "speedily" ( Psalm 143:7 ); "and hasted to catch whether it were his mind" (for 1 Kings 20:33 the King James Version); "and it hasteth toward the end," margin (Hebrew) "panteth," for "but at the end it shall speak" ( Habakkuk 2:3 ); "hastily" for "suddenly" ( 1 Timothy 5:22 ); for "and for this I make haste" ( Job 20:2 ), "even by reason of my haste that is in me," margin "and by reason of this my haste is within me"; for "hasten after another god" ( Psalm 16:4 ), the American Standard Revised Version has "that give gifts for another god," the English Revised Version "exchange the Lord for"; for "hasten hereunto" ( Ecclesiastes 2:25 ), "have enjoyment"; for "hasten hither" ( 1 Kings 22:9 ), "fetch quickly"; for "and gather" ( Exodus 9:19 ), "hasten in"; for "hasteneth that he may" ( Isaiah 51:14 ), "shall speedily"; for "hasteth to" ( Job 9:26 ), "swoopeth on"; for "and hasteth" ( Job 40:23 ), "he trembleth"; for "hasty" ( Daniel 2:15 ), "urgent."
