Genesis 24:12
And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
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Speed
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2 John 1:11
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
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χαίρω
chaírō · khah'-ee-ro
2 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
to be "cheer"ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well
Strong's KJV usage: :--farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 John 1:10Strong's last: 2 John 1:11
Open full G5463 profile →אָמַץ
ʼâmats · aw-mats'
2 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to be alert, physically (on foot) or mentally (in courage)
Strong's KJV usage: confirm, be courageous (of good courage, stedfastly minded, strong, stronger), establish, fortify, harden, increase, prevail, strengthen (self), make strong (obstinate, speed).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 12:18Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 10:18
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mâhar · maw-har'
2 times translated as this KJV form64 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly
Strong's KJV usage: be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) × quickly, rash, × shortly, (be so) × soon, make speed, × speedily, × straightway, × suddenly, swift.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 15:14Strong's last: Isaiah 5:19
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mᵉhêrâh · meh-hay-raw'
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a hurry; hence (adverbially) promptly
Strong's KJV usage: hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, make (with) speed(-ily), swiftly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 20:38Strong's last: Isaiah 5:26
Open full H4120 profile →τάχιστα
táchista · takh'-is-tah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
most quickly, i.e. (with G5613 prefixed) as soon as possible
Strong's KJV usage: :--+ with all speed.
Strong's first: Acts 17:15Strong's last: Acts 17:15
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ʼoçparnâʼ · os-par-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
diligently
Strong's KJV usage: fast, forthwith, speed(-ily).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 6:12Strong's last: Ezra 6:12
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qârâh · kaw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 24:12Strong's last: Genesis 24:12
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H7136
And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
H4120
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
H4116
And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
H553
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
H553
Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
H629
And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.
H4116
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!
H4120
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
G5033
And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
G5463
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
G5463
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
English meaning and historical usage.
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speed
SPEED, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive sped, speeded. [The Latin expedio may be from the same root, which signifies to drive, to hurry, of the family of Latin peto.]
1. To make haste; to move with celerity.
2. To have success; to prosper; to succeed; that is, to advance in one's enterprise. He that's once demi'd will hardly speed Those that profaned and abused the second temple, sped no better.
3. To have any condition good or ill; to fare. Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped, The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.
SPEED, verb transitive
1. TO dispatch; to send away in haste. He sped him thence home to his habitation.
2. To hasten; to hurry; to put in quick motion. -But sped his steps along the hoarse resounding shore.
3. TO hasten to a conclusion; to execute; to dispatch; as, to speed judicial acts.
4. To assist; to help forward; to hasten. -With rising gales that sped their happy flight.
5. To prosper; to cause to succeed. May heaven speed this undertaking.
6. To furnish in haste.
7. To dispatch; to kill; to ruin; to destroy. With a speeding thrust his heart he found. A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped; If foes, they write if friends they read me dead.
Note In the phrase, 'God speed ' there is probably a gross mistake in considering it as equivalent to 'may God give you success.' The true phrase is probably 'good speed; good, in Saxon, being written god. I bid you or wish you good speed that is, good success.
SPEED, noun
1. Swiftness; quickness; celerity; applied to animals. We say, a man or a horse runs or travels with speed; a fowl flies with speed We speak of the speed of a fish in the water, but we do not speak of the speed of a river, or of wind, or of a falling body. I think however I have seen the word applied to the lapse of time and the motion of lightning, but in poetry only.
2. Haste; dispatch; as, to perform a journey with speed; to execute an order with speed
3. Rapid pace; as a horse of speed We say also, high speed full speed
4. Success; prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; that is, advance to the desired end. O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day. Genesis 24:12. This use is retained in the proverb, 'to make more haste than good speed ' and in the Scriptural phrase, 'to bid one good speed ' [Not God speed as erroneously written.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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