חֲצַףchătsaph/khats-af'/
HebrewH26852 occurrences (KJV)
properly, to shear or cut close; figuratively, to be severe
KJV renders it: hasty, be urgent.
Where it appears
- Dan 2:15he answered Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
- Dan 3:22Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.