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חִישׁ

chish

quickly

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Strong’s H2440Adverb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

quickly1

In the text

Psalm 90:10חִישׁ
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חִישׁ adv. quickly, ψ 90:10

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.