κατασπεύδω
hasten, urge on
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατασπεύδω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 5:10 κατασπεύδω And the taskmasters and the accountants hastened them, and they spoke to the people, saying, thus says Pharao, I will give you straw no longer.
- Exodus 5:13 κατασπεύδω and the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfil your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you.
- Exodus 9:19 κατασπεύδω Now then hasten to gather your cattle, and all that you have in the fields; for all the men and cattle as many as shall be found in the fields, and shall not enter into a house, (but the hail shall fall upon them,) shall die.
- Exodus 10:16 κατασπεύδω And Pharao hasted to call Moses and Aaron, saying, I have sinned before the Lord your God, and against you;
- Deuteronomy 33:2 κατασπεύδω And he said, The Lord is come from Sina, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hasted out of the mount of Pharan, with the ten thousands of Cades; on his right hand were his angels with him.
- 1 Chronicles 21:30 κατασπεύδω And David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he hasted not because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 26:20 κατασπεύδω And Azarias the chief priest, and the other priests, turned to look at him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead; and they got him hastily out thence, for he also hasted to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.
- 2 Chronicles 35:21 κατασπεύδω And he sent messengers to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Juda? I am not come today to war against you; and God has told me to hasten: beware of the God that is with me, lest he destroy you.
- Esther 5:3 κατασπεύδω And the king said, What will you, Esther? and what is your request? ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.
- Daniel 4:12 κατασπεύδω Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and bind it with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.
- Daniel 5:6 κατασπεύδω Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one another.
About this word
About this word
κατασπεύδω (kataspeúdō), “hasten, urge on,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 11 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →