Bible Dictionary: Swiftness

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

Greek

5034. tachos -- speed
... immediately. Cognate: 5034 -- swiftness (speed), ie done as quickly (speedily)
as is appropriate to the particular situation. See 5035 (). ...
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5143. trecho -- to run
... 5143 () was used of "runners in a race, of swiftness or of effort to attain
an end (so Herodotus, Eur., etc.)" (). Word Origin a prim. ...
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4710. spoude -- haste, diligence
... 4710 (from 4692 , "move quickly, speed on") -- properly, swiftness to
show , ie one's "best" (full effort by making haste). For ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6431. Peleth -- two Israelites
... NASB Word Usage Peleth (2). Peleth. From an unused root meaning to flee; swiftness;
Peleth, the name of two Israelites -- Peleth. 6430, 6431. Peleth. 6432 ...
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Library

The Comforter
... It is the swiftness of the dove, and not its fancied gentleness that is
spoken of. The dove appearing, as you may see it again and ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xiv the comforter.htm

Of the Production of the Beasts and of Man.
... so that they may either oppose the stronger animals with natural weapons, or the
feebler ones may withdraw themselves from danger by the swiftness of their ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap ii of the production of.htm

The Holy Spirit in the New Testament Other than in the Old.
... The swiftness of a thought exceeds that of electricity. In a word, the limitations
of the material world seem to disappear in the realm of spirits. ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxv the holy spirit in.htm

Why Man is Destitute of Natural Weapons and Covering
... For if man had had such power as to be able to outrun the horse in swiftness, and
to have a foot that, from its solidity, could not be worn out, but was ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/vii why man is destitute.htm

What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the ...
... in this passage by the apostle and those who were alive with him, shall never die
at all, or shall pass with incomprehensible swiftness through death to ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 20 what the same apostle.htm

Psalm XLV.
... But how swiftly soever the transcriber writes, still it is not comparable to that
swiftness of which another Psalm says, "His word runneth very swiftly." [1388 ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xlv.htm

The General Deliverance
... It is probable, that he had a far higher degree both of swiftness and strength,
than any of his posterity ever had, and much less any of the lower creatures. ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 60 the general deliverance.htm

Marvellous Increase of the Church
... But, secondly, the Chaldee has the idea in it, not of numbers, but of swiftness.
"Who are these that fly as a cloud," for swiftness? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/marvellous increase of the church.htm

Psalm CXLVII.
... "Who sendeth forth His Word to the earth;" and to earth His Word came. How? or what
is His Word? "Even unto swiftness His Word runneth." He said not, "His Word ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxlvii.htm

Psalm LX.
... in a contrary direction to that in which it is going to be shot; and the more the
stretching thereof hath gone backward, with the greater swiftness it starteth ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lx.htm

Thesaurus

Swiftness (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness;
celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness...
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Ass (95 Occurrences)
... 5:21, noted for its swiftness; and (2) that called pe're, the wild ass of Asia
(Job 39:6-8; 6:5; 11:12; Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 2:24; 14:6, etc.). ...
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Leopard (6 Occurrences)
... Its fierceness (Isaiah 11:6), its watching for its prey (Jeremiah 5:6), its swiftness
(Habakkuk 1:8), and the spots of its skin (Jeremiah 13:23), are noticed. ...
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Reem (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Reem (5 Occurrences). Numbers 23:22 God is bringing them
out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him; (YLT). ...
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Peleth (2 Occurrences)
...Swiftness. ... pe'-leth (peleth, "swiftness"): (1) Father of On, one of the rebels against
Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16:1); probably same as PALLU (which see). ...
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Swallow (38 Occurrences)
... (2.) Hebrews deror, ie, "the bird of freedom" (Psalm 84:3; Proverbs 26:2), properly
rendered swallow, distinguished for its swiftness of flight, its love of ...
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Swim (8 Occurrences)

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Swiftly (15 Occurrences)

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Launch (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the
water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a ...
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Gnosticism
... fanatical. in the 2nd century spread with the swiftness of an epidemic over
the church from Syria to Gaul" (Law, The Tests of Life, 26). ...
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Bible Concordance

Swiftness (2 Occurrences)

Numbers 23:22 God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;
(YLT)

Numbers 24:8 God is bringing him out of Egypt; As the swiftness of a Reem is to him, He eateth up nations his adversaries, And their bones he breaketh, And 'with' his arrows he smiteth,
(YLT)

Subtopics

Swiftness

Related Terms

Ass (95 Occurrences)

Leopard (6 Occurrences)

Reem (5 Occurrences)

Peleth (2 Occurrences)

Swallow (38 Occurrences)

Swim (8 Occurrences)

Swiftly (15 Occurrences)

Launch (3 Occurrences)

Gnosticism