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My dictionary says there is a verb "to hurry" עוש but I could only find the verb "to hurry" עוץ? This verb is used in Genesis 19:15 and in other quotes. Is my dictionary wrong? Thank you.

Acc. to BDB, עושׁ is "to lend aid, come to help." BDB references it in Joel 4:11, but that appears to be incorrect as it is in Joel 3:11:

ע֣וּשׁוּ וָבֹ֧אוּ כָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֛ם מִסָּבִ֖יב

Haste and come, all the surrounding nations

Gen 19:15 is:

וּכְמוֹ הַשַּׁחַר עָלָה וַיָּאִיצוּ הַמַּלְאָכִים בְּלוֹט לֵאמֹר קוּם קַח אֶֽת־אִשְׁתְּךָ וְאֶת־שְׁתֵּי בְנֹתֶיךָ הַנִּמְצָאֹת פֶּן־תִּסָּפֶה בַּעֲוֺן הָעִֽיר׃

Where the verb is אוץ (with an aleph, not ayin) meaning "to hurry."

Which dictionary are you using?

BDB gives another definition than " to hurry".
It bases its definition on the Arabic root GH-W-TH.

Those who define it as "hurry" just replace the guttural letter Ayin=ע with another guttural letter Het=ח
as if עושו is an alternative for חושו (in the meaning of "hurry").

Charles Loder wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:17 pm Acc. to BDB, עושׁ is "to lend aid, come to help." BDB references it in Joel 4:11, but that appears to be incorrect as it is in Joel 3:11:

ע֣וּשׁוּ וָבֹ֧אוּ כָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֛ם מִסָּבִ֖יב

Haste and come, all the surrounding nations

Gen 19:15 is:

וּכְמוֹ הַשַּׁחַר עָלָה וַיָּאִיצוּ הַמַּלְאָכִים בְּלוֹט לֵאמֹר קוּם קַח אֶֽת־אִשְׁתְּךָ וְאֶת־שְׁתֵּי בְנֹתֶיךָ הַנִּמְצָאֹת פֶּן־תִּסָּפֶה בַּעֲוֺן הָעִֽיר׃

Where the verb is אוץ (with an aleph, not ayin) meaning "to hurry."

Which dictionary are you using?

I guess I was not paying attention and I misread the word I looked up in the dictionary on Blue Letter Bible. I was looking for the word that starts with ayin and I didn't notice a similar word that started with aleph and meant to hurry. I got confused. Still, in Joel 3:11, it is translated as "gather together" or "hurry", so I guess they don't really know what it means for sure. Thanks for looking it up.

The other dictionary I was using does have a few words that turn out not to exist in Biblical Hebrew because no one else has been able to find them when I asked before. It is called "Compendious Hebrew-English Dictionary" by Reuben Avinoam (Grossman) and some other people (H. Sachs and M.H. Segal) by Dvir Publishing.

Kenneth Greiffer wrote:

Acc. to BDB, עושׁ is "to lend aid, come to help." BDB references it in Joel 4:11, but that appears to be incorrect as it is in Joel 3:11:

This is one place where the Hebrew has a different numbering system than does the LXX and English. It is chapter 4 in Hebrew. BDB is correct in that. I have four different Hebrew versions on my computer, and they all have a chapter 4.

As for the meaning, it is found only here and lexicographers are just guessing.

Karl W. Randolph.

kwrandolph wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:17 pm Kenneth Greiffer wrote:

Acc. to BDB, עושׁ is "to lend aid, come to help." BDB references it in Joel 4:11, but that appears to be incorrect as it is in Joel 3:11:

This is one place where the Hebrew has a different numbering system than does the LXX and English. It is chapter 4 in Hebrew. BDB is correct in that. I have four different Hebrew versions on my computer, and they all have a chapter 4.

As for the meaning, it is found only here and lexicographers are just guessing.

Karl W. Randolph.

Karl, thanks for pointing this out, but Charles Loder wrote that, not me.

kwrandolph wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:17 pm Kenneth Greiffer wrote:

Acc. to BDB, עושׁ is "to lend aid, come to help." BDB references it in Joel 4:11, but that appears to be incorrect as it is in Joel 3:11:

This is one place where the Hebrew has a different numbering system than does the LXX and English. It is chapter 4 in Hebrew. BDB is correct in that. I have four different Hebrew versions on my computer, and they all have a chapter 4.

As for the meaning, it is found only here and lexicographers are just guessing.

Karl W. Randolph.

That's what I get for looking in my English bible! The correction is noted.