Quick
Bible Usage:
- quick used 10 times.
- quicken used 13 times.
- quickened used 7 times.
- quickeneth used 5 times.
- quickening used once.
- quickly used 39 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 13:10
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 4:5
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: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
QUICK, verb intransitive
To stir; to move. [Not in use.]
QUICK, adjective [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the Latin vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.]
1. Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Leviticus 13:10.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2 Timothy 4:1.
[In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.]
2. Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.
3. Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.
4. Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready. He is remarkably quick in his motions. He is a man of quick parts.
5. Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.
QUICK with child, pregnant with a living child.
QUICK, adverb
1. Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
2. Soon; in a short time; without delay. Go, and return quick
QUICK, noun
1. A living animal. obsolete
2. The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick
3. Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick
QUICK, verb transitive To revive; to make alive. obsolete
QUICK, verb intransitive To become alive. obsolete
QUICKEN, verb transitive quik'n.
1. Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Romans 4:17.
Hence flocks and herds, and men and beasts and fowls, with breath are quicken'd and attract their souls.
2. To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to.
You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1.
3. To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.
4. To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.
5. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psalms 119:25.
QUICKEN, verb intransitive quik'n.
1. To become alive.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
2. To move with rapidity or activity.
And keener lightning quickens in her eye.
QUICK'ENED, participle passive
1. Made alive; revived; vivified; reinvigorated.
2. Accelerated; hastened.
3. Stimulated; incited.
QUICK'ENER, noun
1. One who revives, vivifies, or communicates life.
2. That which reinvigorates.
3. That which accelerates motion or increases activity.
QUICK'ENING, participle present tense Giving life; accelerating; inciting.
QUICK'-EYED, adjective Having acute sight; of keen and ready perception.
By the Father
Psalms 71:20; Psalms 80:18; Romans 4:17; Romans 8:11; Ephesians 2:1; 1 Timothy 6:13
By the Son
John 5:21; 1 Corinthians 15:45
By the Holy Spirit
John 6:63; Romans 8:11; 2 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Peter 3:18
QUICK'EN-TREE, noun A tree, the wild sorb, a species of wild ash.
the Sorbus aucuparia, or mountain ash, a species of service tree.
QUICK-GRASS. [See Quitch-grass.]
QUICK'LIME, noun [See Lime.] Any calcarious substance deprived of its fixed or carbonic air, or an earthy substance calcined; as chalk, limestone, oyster-shells, etc.; unslaked lime. Calcarious stones and shells are reduced to quicklime by being subjected for a considerable time to intense heat, which expels the carbonic and aqeuous matter.
QUICK'LY, adverb
1. Speedily; with haste or celerity.
2. Soon; without delay.
QUICK-MATCH, noun [See Match.] A combustible preparation formed of cotton strands dipped in a boiling composition of white vinegar, saltpeter and mealed powder; used by artillerymen.
QUICK'NESS, noun
1. Speed; velocity; celerity; rapidity; as the quickness of motion.
2. Activity; briskness; promptness, as the quickness of the imagination or wit.
3. Acuteness of perception; keep sensibility; as quickness of sensation.
4. Sharpness; pungency.
QUICK'SAND, noun
1. Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure, loose sand abounding with water.
2. Unsolid ground.
Found only in Acts 27:17, the rendering of the Greek Syrtis. On the north coast of Africa were two localities dangerous to sailors, called the Greater and Lesser Syrtis. The former of these is probably here meant. It lies between Tripoli and Barca, and near Cyrene. The Lesser Syrtis lay farther to the west.
more properly THE SYRTIS, THE, (Acts 27:17) the broad a deep bight on the north African coast between Carthage and Cyrene. There were properly two Syrtes
the eastern or larger, now called the Gulf of Sidra , and the western or smaller, now the Gulf of Cabes . It is the former to which our attention is directed in this passage of the Acts.
QUICK'SCENTED, adjective Having an acute perception by the nose; of an acute smell.
QUICK'SET, noun A living plant set to grow, particularly for a hedge.
QUICK'SET, verb transitive To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge or fence; as, to quickset a ditch.
QUICK'-SIGHTED, adjective Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or discern.
QUICK'SIGHTEDNESS, noun Quickness of sight or discernment; readiness to see or discern.
QUICK'SILVER, noun [that is, living silver, argentum vivum, so called from its fluidity.]
Mercury, a metal found both native and in the state of ore, in mines, in various parts of the world, and so remarkably fusible as to be congealable only with the intense cold indicated by 39 degrees or 40 degrees below zero, on Fahrenheit's thermometer. It is the heaviest of the metals, next to platina and gold. It is used in various arts and in medicine.
QUICK'SILVERED, adjective Overlaid with quicksilver.
QUICK'-WITTED, adjective Having ready wit.
Bible Usage:
- quick used 10 times.
- quicken used 13 times.
- quickened used 7 times.
- quickeneth used 5 times.
- quickening used once.
- quickly used 39 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 13:10
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 4:5
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: Yes
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