Quick
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
(2): ( superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
(3): ( superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
(4): ( superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
(5): ( superl.) Pregnant; with child.
(6): ( adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
(7): ( n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
(8): ( n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; - used figuratively.
(9): ( n.) Quitch grass.
(10): ( v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
(11): ( superl.) Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.
(12): ( superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
King James Dictionary [2]
QUICK,
To stir to move. Not in use.
QUICK, a. If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the L. vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.
1. Primarily, alive living opposed to dead or unanimated as quick flesh. Leviticus 13 .
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2 Timothy 4 .
In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.
2. Swift hasty done with celerity as quick dispatch. 3. Speedy done or occurring in a short time as a quick return of profits.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.
4. Active brisk nimble prompt ready. He is remarkably quick in his motions. He is a man of quick parts. 5. Moving with rapidity or celerity as quick time in music.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
QUICK, adv.
1. Nimbly with celerity rapidly with haste speedily without delay as, run quick be quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
2. Soon in a short time without delay. Go, and return quick.
QUICK, n.
1. A living animal. Obs. 2. The living flesh sensible parts as penetrating to the quick stung to the quick cut to the quick. 3. Living shrubs or trees as a ditch or bank set with quick.
QUICK, To revive to make alive. Obs.
QUICK, To become alive. Obs.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Leviticus 13:10 (a) The word is used here to describe proud-flesh, or a similar pathological condition. It indicates a sore that is actively sensitive, and filled with diseased tissue.
Numbers 16:30 (a) This word is used to describe the matter of time in regard to the fall of these rebels. Since hell is only eleven miles from the surface of the earth, it did not take long for these rebellious men to go there. It may also refer to the fact that they were alive. In other places it is used in contrast with "the dead." (See Psalm 55:15).
Isaiah 11:3 (a) The word is used in this case to indicate an alert mind, one that is apt to understand easily, and to grasp without effort the facts under consideration.
Acts 10:42 (a) This is one of those places in which the word is used to describe those who are living, in contrast with those who have died. (See also2Ti 4:1; 1 Peter 4:5).
Hebrews 4:12 (a) This is a description which indicates that the Scriptures are searching, living and powerful. They are not ordinary writings. They are not the product of men's minds. Our Lord said "The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life." John 6:63.
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [4]
In the old English sense, means alive, or living. Numbers 16:30 2 Timothy 4:1; and quicken, to make alive. God bestows spiritual life on men dead in trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:5 , through Christ the second Adam, who is a quickening Spirit, 1 Corinthians 15:45 .
