Chush חוּשׁ

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Chush (Hebrew חוּשׁ, Strong's H2363) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to hasten”. It occurs 20 times in 20 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to haste, make haste, hurry
1a) (Qal) to make haste
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to show haste, act quickly, hasten, come quickly

to feel, enjoy

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	haste (12), hasten (4), hasted (2), ready (1), hasteth (1)
BSB	come quickly (3), hurry (3), be ready (1), is coming quickly (1), suddenly (1), make haste (1), turmoil (1), has rushed (1), i would hurry (1), i hurried (1), can find enjoyment (1), be shaken (1), and 2 other renderings

Every verse with Chush, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers 32:17
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

Deuteronomy 32:35
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Judges 20:37
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.

1 Samuel 20:38
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

Job 20:2
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Psalm 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
Psalm 38:22
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
Psalm 40:13
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.
Psalm 55:8
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
Psalm 70:1
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!
Psalm 70:5
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
Psalm 71:12
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
Psalm 119:60
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
Psalm 141:1
LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?

Isaiah 5:19
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
Isaiah 60:22
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).