KJV dictionary & concordance
Pressing, insistent, forceful, requiring immediate action, or admitting no willing delay.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 12:33
Complete exact-word concordance
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And the Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste: for they said, We be all dead men.
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
Therefore because the Kings commandement was vrgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that tooke vp Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
1611 marginal noteCald. word.
1611 marginal noteOr, sparke.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Pressing with importunity or necessity; vehement.
