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עִיט

it

to pounce

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Strong’s H5860bVerb2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

it rushed1

did you rush1

In the text

1 Samuel 14:32וַיַּעַט
So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עִיט] vb. denom. dart greedily (like a bird of prey)

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.