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Hebrew verb · H7323

רוּץ

rutsroots

to run: run

103 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: rûwts

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7323is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 76
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7323

to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)

The King James renders it: break down, divide speedily, footman, guard, bring hastily, (make) run (away, through), post.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

ruts is rendered "to run: run". It stands 103 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-three books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:2And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
  • The Greek text spells it seventy-six different ways.

The first use

And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Genesis 18:2וַיָּ֤רָץ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he ran17
  • the runners16
  • running6
  • they run6
  • and she ran4
  • I run4
  • run4
  • a runner3
  • and they ran3
  • he runs3
  • to run3
  • and it ran2

and 26 more, 103 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 103, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

76 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיָּ֤רָץ4
  • וַיָּ֣רָץ4
  • הָרָצִ֜ים3
  • וַיָּ֥רָץ3
  • וַיָּ֙רָץ֙3
  • רָ֣ץ3
  • הָרָצִ֔ים2
  • הָֽרָצִ֔ים2
  • הָרָצִ֨ים2
  • הָרָצִֽים׃2
  • וַיָּ֨רָץ2
  • וַתָּ֖רָץ2

and 64 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms19Hc/Vqw3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural19HTd/Vqrmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular8HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs4Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVqi1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun4HVqi3mp/Sn
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular4HVqv2ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp3Hc/Vqw3mp
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HVqrmpa

Genesis

ten uses
  • And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

    Genesis 18:2

    • וַיָּ֤רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.

    Genesis 18:7

    • רָ֣ץratzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he ran
  • So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”

    Genesis 24:17

    • וַיָּ֥רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

    Genesis 24:20

    • וַתָּ֥רָץvatarotzHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she ran
  • The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

    Genesis 24:28

    • וַתָּ֙רָץ֙vatarotzHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she ran
  • Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

    Genesis 24:29

    • וַיָּ֨רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

    Genesis 29:12

    • וַתָּ֖רָץvatarotzHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she ran
  • When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.

    Genesis 29:13

    • וַיָּ֤רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

    Genesis 33:4

    • וַיָּ֨רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

    Genesis 41:14

    • וַיְרִיצֻ֖הוּvayritzuhuHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and people brought quickly him

Numbers

two uses
  • A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

    Numbers 11:27

    • וַיָּ֣רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.

    Numbers 16:47

    • וַיָּ֙רָץ֙vaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran

Joshua

two uses
  • So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there it all was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.

    Joshua 7:22

    • וַיָּרֻ֖צוּvaiyarutzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they ran
  • and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

    Joshua 8:19

    • וַיָּר֙וּצוּ֙vaiyarutzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they ran

Judges

two uses
  • Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, crying out as they ran.

    Judges 7:21

    • וַיָּ֧רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it ran
  • The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”

    Judges 13:10

    • וַתָּ֖רָץvatarotzHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she ran

1 Samuel

twelve uses
  • He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.

    1 Samuel 3:5

    • וַיָּ֣רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

    1 Samuel 4:12

    • וַיָּ֤רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his own chariots and horses, to run in front of his chariots.

    1 Samuel 8:11

    • וְרָצ֖וּveratzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will run
  • So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.

    1 Samuel 10:23

    • וַיָּרֻ֙צוּ֙vaiyarutzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they ran
  • One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

    1 Samuel 17:17

    • וְהָרֵ֥ץveharetzconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and bring quickly
  • Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.

    1 Samuel 17:22

    • וַיָּ֖רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.

    1 Samuel 17:48

    • וַיָּ֥רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

    1 Samuel 17:51

    • וַיָּ֣רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’

    1 Samuel 20:6

    • לָרוּץ֙larutzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to run
  • He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.

    1 Samuel 20:36

    • רֻ֗ץrutzverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: run
    • רָ֔ץratzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he ran
  • Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

    1 Samuel 22:17

    • לָרָצִים֩laratzimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the runners

2 Samuel

twelve uses
  • Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

    2 Samuel 15:1

    • רָצִ֥יםratzimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: ran
  • Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”

    2 Samuel 18:19

    • אָר֣וּצָהʾarutzahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me run
  • So Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

    2 Samuel 18:21

    • וַיָּרֹֽץ׃vaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”

    2 Samuel 18:22

    • אָרֻֽצָה־ʾarutzah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me run
    • רָץ֙ratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: running
  • “No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.

    2 Samuel 18:23

    • אָר֔וּץʾarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will run
    • ר֑וּץrutzverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: run
    • וַיָּ֤רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.

    2 Samuel 18:24

    • רָ֥ץratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: running
  • the watchman saw another man running, and he called out to the gatekeeper, “Look! Another man is running alone!” “This one also brings good news,” said the king.

    2 Samuel 18:26

    • רָץ֒ratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: running
    • רָ֣ץratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: running
  • For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.

    2 Samuel 22:30

    • אָר֣וּץʾarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I run

1 Kings

six uses
  • At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.

    1 Kings 1:5

    • רָצִ֥יםratzimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: running
  • Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

    1 Kings 14:27

    • הָרָצִ֔יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

    1 Kings 14:28

    • הָֽרָצִ֔יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
    • הָרָצִֽים׃haratzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

    1 Kings 18:46

    • וַיָּ֙רָץ֙vaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran
  • So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”

    1 Kings 19:20

    • וַיָּ֙רָץ֙vaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran

2 Kings

thirteen uses
  • And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”

    2 Kings 4:22

    • וְאָר֛וּצָהvearutzahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so I may run
  • Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”

    2 Kings 4:26

    • רֽוּץ־rutz-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: run
  • Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

    2 Kings 5:20

    • רַ֣צְתִּיratztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I run
  • So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”

    2 Kings 5:21

    • רָ֣ץratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: ran
  • When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

    2 Kings 10:25

    • לָרָצִ֨יםlaratzimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the runners
    • הָֽרָצִים֙haratzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son

    2 Kings 11:4

    • וְלָ֣רָצִ֔יםvelaratzimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and of the runners
  • a third shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns guarding the temple—

    2 Kings 11:6

    • הָרָצִ֑יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

    2 Kings 11:11

    • הָרָצִ֜יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • When Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 11:13

    • הָֽרָצִ֖יןharatzinthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,

    2 Kings 11:19

    • הָרָצִ֜יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
    • הָרָצִ֖יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

    2 Kings 23:12

    • וַיָּ֣רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ran

2 Chronicles

seven uses
  • Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

    2 Chronicles 12:10

    • הָרָצִ֔יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

    2 Chronicles 12:11

    • הָרָצִים֙haratzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
    • הָרָצִֽים׃haratzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went out to them in the house of the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 23:12

    • הָֽרָצִ֔יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were running
  • So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

    2 Chronicles 30:6

    • הָרָצִ֨יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

    2 Chronicles 30:10

    • הָרָצִ֜יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.

    2 Chronicles 35:13

    • וַיָּרִ֖יצוּvaiyaritzuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they brought quickly

Esther

four uses
  • And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

    Esther 3:13

    • הָרָצִים֮haratzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

    Esther 3:15

    • הָֽרָצִ֞יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the runners
  • Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

    Esther 8:10

    • הָרָצִ֨יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the couriers
  • The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

    Esther 8:14

    • הָרָצִ֞יםharatzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the couriers

Job

three uses
  • My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

    Job 9:25

    • רָ֑ץratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a runner
  • rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

    Job 15:26

    • יָר֣וּץyarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he runs
  • He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

    Job 16:14

    • יָרֻ֖ץyarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he runs

Psalms

six uses
  • For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

    Psalms 18:29

    • אָרֻ֣ץʾarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I run
  • Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

    Psalms 19:5

    • לָר֥וּץlarutzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to run
  • For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.

    Psalms 59:4

    • יְרוּצ֣וּןyerutzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they run
  • Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.

    Psalms 68:31

    • תָּרִ֥יץtaritzverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will cause to run
  • I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

    Psalms 119:32

    • אָר֑וּץʾarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I run
  • He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.

    Psalms 147:15

    • יָר֥וּץyarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it runs

Proverbs

four uses
  • For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

    Proverbs 1:16

    • יָר֑וּצוּyarutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they run
  • When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.

    Proverbs 4:12

    • תָּ֝ר֗וּץtarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will run
  • a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

    Proverbs 6:18

    • לָר֥וּץlarutzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to run
  • The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

    Proverbs 18:10

    • יָר֖וּץyarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he runs

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

    Song of Solomon 1:4

    • נָּר֑וּצָהnarutzahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us run

Isaiah

three uses
  • But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

    Isaiah 40:31

    • יָר֙וּצוּ֙yarutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will run
  • Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”

    Isaiah 55:5

    • יָר֑וּצוּyarutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will run
  • Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

    Isaiah 59:7

    • יָרֻ֔צוּyarutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they run

Jeremiah

seven uses
  • “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

    Jeremiah 12:5

    • רַ֙צְתָּה֙ratztahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have run
  • I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.

    Jeremiah 23:21

    • רָ֑צוּratzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they ran
  • Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

    Jeremiah 49:19

    • אֲרִיצֶ֨נּוּʾaritzenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I will cause to run it
  • Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

    Jeremiah 50:44

    • אֲרִיצֵם֙ʾarutzemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will cause to run them
  • One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.

    Jeremiah 51:31

    • רָ֤ץratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a runner
    • רָץ֙ratzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a runner
    • יָר֔וּץyarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will run

Daniel

one use
  • He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with furious power.

    Daniel 8:6

    • וַיָּ֥רָץvaiyarotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it ran

Joel

three uses
  • Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.

    Joel 2:4

    • יְרוּצֽוּן׃yerutzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they run
  • They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.

    Joel 2:7

    • יְרֻצ֔וּןyerutzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they run
  • They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

    Joel 2:9

    • יְרֻצ֔וּןyerutzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they run

Amos

one use
  • “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

    Amos 6:12

    • הַיְרֻצ֤וּןhayrutzunquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: ¿ do they run

Nahum

one use
  • The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

    Nahum 2:4

    • יְרוֹצֵֽצוּ׃yerotzetzuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they run around

Habakkuk

one use
  • Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

    Habakkuk 2:2

    • יָר֖וּץyarutzverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he may run

Haggai

one use
  • You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

    Haggai 1:9

    • רָצִ֖יםratzimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: running

Zechariah

one use
  • and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

    Zechariah 2:4

    • רֻ֗ץrutzverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: run

The letters

Gematria 296· 1,106 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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