Urge
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Luke 11:53
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G1758 Used 1 time
URGE, verb intransitive [Latin urgeo. This belongs probably to the family of Gr. and Latin arceo.]
1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to apply force to, in almost any manner.
And great Achilles urge the Trojan fate.
2. To press the mind or will; to press by motives, arguments, persuasion or importunity.
My broth did urge me in his act.
3. To provoke; to exasperate.
URGE not my father's anger.
4. To follow close; to impel.
Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
5. To labor vehemently; to press with eagerness.
Through the thick deserts headlong urg'd his flight.
6. To press; as, to urge an argument; to urge a petition; to urge the necessity of a case.
7. To importune; to solicit earnestly. He urged his son to withdraw.
8. To apply forcibly; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
URGE, verb intransitive To press forward; as, he strives to urge upward.
URG'ED, participle passive Pressed; impelled; importuned.
URG'ENCY, noun
1. Pressure; importunity; earnest solicitation; as the urgency of a request.
2. Pressure of necessity; as the urgency of want or distress; the urgency of the occasion.
URG'ENT, adjective
1. Pressing with importunity. Exodus 12:33.
2. Pressing with necessity; violent; vehement; as an urgent case or occasion.
URG'ENTLY, adverb With pressing importunity; violently; vehemently; forcibly.
URG'ER, noun One who urges; one who importunes.
URGE-WONDER, noun A sort of grain.