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hast (chaphaz, chush, mahar; speudo): "Haste" (from a root meaning "to pursue") implies "celerity of motion." (1) The noun occurs as translation of mahar, "to hasten," etc. ( Ex 10:16 ; 12:33 , "in haste"); of chapaz, "to make haste" ( 2Ki 7:15 ; Ps 31:22 ; 116:11 , "I said in my haste (the Revised Version margin "alarm"), All men are liars"); of chippazon, a "hasty flight" ( Ex 12:11 ; De 16:3 ; Isa 52:12 ); of nachats, "to be urgent" ( 1Sa 21:8 , "The king's business required haste"). (2) "Haste" as a verb is transitive and intrans; instances of the transitive use are, 'uts, "to hasten," "press" ( Ex 5:13 , "And the taskmasters hasted them," the Revised Version (British and American) "were urgent"); chush, "to make haste" ( Isa 5:19 ); mahar ( 2Ch 24:5 twice); shaqadh, "to watch," "to fix one's attention" on anything ( Jer 1:12 the King James Version, "I will hasten my word"); mahir, "hasting" ( Isa 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 ( Pr 21:5 ; 29:20 , 'uts, etc.); in Isa 28:4 , bikkur, "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" ( Joe 3:11 margin, as the King James Version); "make haste" for "speedily" ( Ps 143:7 ); "and hasted to catch whether it were his mind" (for 1Ki 20:33 the King James Version); "and it hasteth toward the end," margin (Hebrew) "panteth," for "but at the end it shall speak" ( Hab 2:3 ); "hastily" for "suddenly" ( 1Ti 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" ( Ps 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" ( Ec 2:25 ), "have enjoyment"; for "hasten hither" ( 1Ki 22:9 ), "fetch quickly"; for "and gather" ( Ex 9:19 ), "hasten in"; for "hasteneth that he may" ( Isa 51:14 ), "shall speedily"; for "hasteth to" ( Job 9:26 ), "swoopeth on"; for "and hasteth" ( Job 40:23 ), "he trembleth"; for "hasty" ( Da 2:15 ), "urgent." W. L. Walker