ḥush

This verb pictures quick, urgent motion: a person breaking into a run, an army rushing an ambush, an eagle swooping to its prey, or a coming event bearing down fast. It is largely a poet's word, appearing far more in the Psalms and the Prophets than in plain narrative.

Its most memorable use is a cry for help. Again and again the Psalms turn it into an urgent plea, "hurry to me, hasten to my aid," pressing God to act without delay. In other places it works the other way around: God himself promises to hasten an event, bringing his purpose about quickly when its time comes.

A close everyday partner is מָהַר, the ordinary verb for doing something quickly; this word leans harder on the urgency and drive behind the speed, which is why it fits the raw desperation of a prayer under pressure.

This is a proposed second, look-alike word that scholars find only at Ecclesiastes 2:25, where the writer asks who can eat and take pleasure apart from God. On this reading the verb is not about speed at all but about feeling or savoring, and it fits the book's steady theme that eating, drinking, and enjoyment are gifts to be received from God's hand.

Because the word looks exactly like the common verb for hurrying, translators have long divided over it: some keep "hasten" or "be anxious" here, while most modern versions read "enjoy." The uncertainty is about the word itself, not about the wider point of the passage.