רוּץ
rûwts · roots
to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: break down, divide speedily, footman, guard, bring hastily, (make) run (away, through), post.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to fasten and establish › to pursue the straight path
The head, the highest that works to fasten and establish that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רוּץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
103 occurrences · 103 OT · 0 NT · 76 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and ran9 · 13%
- ran9 · 13%
- run5 · 7%
- of the guard4 · 6%
- running4 · 6%
- and the guard4 · 6%
- they shall run4 · 6%
- so the posts3 · 4%
- to run3 · 4%
- and they ran3 · 4%
- i will run2 · 3%
- unto him, run2 · 3%
- into the guard2 · 3%
- the guard2 · 3%
- posts2 · 3%
- run away2 · 3%
- runneth2 · 3%
- he runneth2 · 3%
- and there ran2 · 3%
- and some shall run1 · 1%
- and he ran1 · 1%
- and they brought him hastily1 · 1%
- that he ran1 · 1%
- and she ran1 · 1%
- them, he ran1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.