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quick alive, living

"The quick and the dead" is the living and the dead, nothing to do with speed. The same root gives "quicken", to make alive — which is what Psalm 119:25 is asking for.

Means: alive, livingIn the KJV: 36 timesStill in use, different meaning

Forms in the text

quicken 13×quick 10×quickened 7×quickeneth 5×quickening 1×

The word behind it

Where it appears

The first 30 of 35 verses.

Leviticus 13:10

And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;

Leviticus 13:24

Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;

Numbers 16:30

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Psalm 55:15

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Psalm 71:20

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Psalm 80:18

So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

Psalm 119:25

My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Psalm 119:50

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

Psalm 119:88

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Psalm 119:93

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

Psalm 119:107

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

Psalm 119:149

Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

Psalm 119:154

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:156

Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

Psalm 119:159

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

Psalm 124:3

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Psalm 143:11

Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.

Isaiah 11:3

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

John 5:21

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Acts 10:42

And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.

Romans 4:17

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 15:36

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

1 Corinthians 15:45

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Ephesians 2:1

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Colossians 2:13

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Common questions

What does "quick" mean in the Bible?

In the King James Version quick means alive, living. "The quick and the dead" is the living and the dead, nothing to do with speed. The same root gives "quicken", to make alive — which is what Psalm 119:25 is asking for.

How many times does "quick" appear in the King James Version?

36 times, counting its other forms (quicken 13 times, quick 10 times, quickened 7 times, quickeneth 5 times, quickening 1 time).

What Hebrew word is behind "quick"?

Most often חָיָה (châyâh), Strong's H2421, meaning to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.

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