Lexicon :: Strong's H6597 - piṯ'ōm

“If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.

Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went out.

So Joshua caught them by surprise, after marching all night from Gilgal.

So Joshua and all his troops surprised them at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.

Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over how God had prepared the people, for it had come about suddenly.

I have seen a fool taking root,

but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

When catastrophe[fn] brings sudden death,

he mocks the despair of the innocent.

Therefore snares surround you,

and sudden dread terrifies you,

shooting from concealed places at the blameless.

They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.

But God will shoot them with arrows;

suddenly, they will be wounded.

Don’t fear sudden danger

or the ruin of the wicked when it comes,

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;

he will be shattered instantly, beyond recovery.

He follows her impulsively

like an ox going to the slaughter,

like a deer bounding toward a trap[fn]

for destruction will come suddenly from them;

who knows what distress these two can bring?

For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

Your many foes[fn] will be like fine dust,

and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.

Then suddenly, in an instant,

“this iniquity of yours will be

like a crumbling gap,

a bulge in a high wall

whose collapse will come in an instant ​— ​suddenly!

“But disaster will happen to you;

you will not know how to avert it.

And it will fall on you,

but you will be unable to ward it off.[fn]

Devastation will happen to you suddenly

and unexpectedly.

“I declared the past events long ago;

they came out of my mouth; I proclaimed them.

Suddenly I acted, and they occurred.

Disaster after disaster is reported

because the whole land is destroyed.

Suddenly my tents are destroyed,

my tent curtains, in a moment.

My dear[fn] people, dress yourselves in sackcloth

and roll in the dust.

Mourn as you would for an only son,

a bitter lament,

for suddenly the destroyer will come on us.

“I made their widows more numerous

than the sand of the seas.

I brought a destroyer at noon

against the mother of young men.

I suddenly released on her

agitation and terrors.

Let a cry be heard from their houses

when you suddenly bring raiders against them,

for they have dug a pit to capture me

and have hidden snares for my feet.

Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered.

Wail for her;

get balm for her wound —

perhaps she can be healed.

“See, I am going to send my messenger, and he will clear the way before me. Then the Lord you seek will suddenly come to his temple, the Messenger of the covenant you delight in ​— ​see, he is coming,” says the LORD of Armies.