לָקַשׁ (b. h.) to be slow, late.
Hif. - הִלְקִישׁ 1) to retard. Num. R. s. 1, beg. (ref. to מאפליה, Jer. II, 31; cmp. אָפִיל) שמא … והִלְקַשְׁתִּי אותה did I ever promise … and retard it?; Tanḥ. B’midb. 2; Yalk. Jer. 267; Num. R. s. 23 שמא … והִלְקַשְׁתִּי אתכם did I promise to bring you … and keep you back? —2) to do a thing late, finish in a hurry, in a state of exhaustion. Lev. R. s. 30 (interpret. יעטף, Ps. CII, 1, with ref. to Gen. XXX, 42) מה הפועל … לכשיפליג ממלאכתו קימעה ויַלְקִישֶׁנָּה בסוף (not מלאכתו) as a laborer sits waiting for the time when he may rest a while from his labor, and finally finishes it in a hurry (when it is late).