11 occurrences

'Quickly' in the Bible

And Eli, hearing the noise and the cries, said, What is the reason of this outcry? And the man came quickly and gave the news to Eli.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

And they said, He is; in fact he is before you: go quickly now, for he has come into the town today, for the people are making an offering in the high place today:

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesHurrying Others On

So they went quickly and made him come out; and when he took his place among the people, he was taller by a head than any of the people.

Verse ConceptsHeadsTall People

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodGrainWeights And Measures, DryTen ThingsEphah [Ten Omers]

Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Running

And Jonathan went on crying out after the boy, Be quick, do not keep waiting about, go quickly. And Jonathan's boy got the arrow and came back to his master.

Verse ConceptsHurrying Others On

And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

Verse ConceptsUrgencyWeaponsHasteHasty Action

And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesHasty Action

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.

Verse ConceptsBowingProstrationSalutationsDismountingBowing Before David

Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleRiding Donkeys

Bible Theasaurus

Apace (4 instances)
Promptly (13 instances)
Quick (75 instances)
Quickly (320 instances)
Rapidly (13 instances)
Speedily (43 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain