רוּץrûwts
run
Pronunciation: roots · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7323
Meanings
Qal
1. of horses, run (Genesis 18:7; Genesis 24:20; Numbers 17:12)
2. Participle as substantive
a. the runners, properly out-runners, as royal escort (2 Samuel 15:1; 1 Kings 1:5; 1 Samuel 22:17)
b. runner, = (royal messenger, post, late) (Jeremiah 51:31; Job 9:25; 2 Chronicles 30:6)
Po`lel: run swiftly, dart (Nahum 2:5)
Hiph`il: cause to run
1. bring, or move, quickly (Genesis 41:14; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Chronicles 35:13)
2. = drive away from (Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 103 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 18:2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
- Genesis 18:7 Then Abraham ran out to the herd and chose a tender calf and gave it to his servant, who quickly prepared it.
- Genesis 24:17 Running over to her, the servant said, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
- Genesis 24:20 So she quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw water for all his camels.
- Genesis 24:28 The young woman ran home to tell her family everything that had happened.
- Genesis 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.
See every passage
- Genesis 18:2, 18:7, 24:17, 24:20, 24:28, 24:29, 29:12, 29:13, 33:4, 41:14
- Numbers 11:27, 16:47
- Joshua 7:22, 8:19
- Judges 7:21, 13:10
- 1 Samuel 3:5, 4:12, 8:11, 10:23, 17:17, 17:22, 17:48, 17:51, 20:6, 20:36, 22:17
- 2 Samuel 15:1, 18:19, 18:21, 18:22, 18:23, 18:24, 18:26, 22:30
- 1 Kings 1:5, 14:27, 14:28, 18:46, 19:20
- 2 Kings 4:22, 4:26, 5:20, 5:21, 10:25, 11:4, 11:6, 11:11, 11:13, 11:19, 23:12
- 2 Chronicles 12:10, 12:11, 23:12, 30:6, 30:10, 35:13
- Esther 3:13, 3:15, 8:10, 8:14
- Job 9:25, 15:26, 16:14
- Psalms 18:29, 19:5, 59:4, 68:31, 119:32, 147:15
- Proverbs 1:16, 4:12, 6:18, 18:10
- Song of Solomon 1:4
- Isaiah 40:31, 55:5, 59:7
- Jeremiah 12:5, 23:21, 49:19, 50:44, 51:31
- Daniel 8:6
- Joel 2:4, 2:7, 2:9
- Amos 6:12
- Nahum 2:4
- Habakkuk 2:2
- Haggai 1:9
- Zechariah 2:4
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).