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Lexicon :: Strong's H4116 - māhar

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מָהַר
Transliteration
māhar
Pronunciation
maw-har'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1152

Strong’s Definitions

מָהַר mâhar, maw-har'; a primitive root; properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly:—be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) × quickly, rash, × shortly, (be so) × soon, make speed, × speedily, × straightway, × suddenly, swift.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x

The KJV translates Strong's H4116 in the following manner: haste (42x), swift (3x), quickly (3x), hastily (2x), hasty (2x), soon (2x), speed (2x), headlong (1x), rash (1x), fearful (1x), ready (1x), shortly (1x), speedily (1x), straightway (1x), suddenly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x
The KJV translates Strong's H4116 in the following manner: haste (42x), swift (3x), quickly (3x), hastily (2x), hasty (2x), soon (2x), speed (2x), headlong (1x), rash (1x), fearful (1x), ready (1x), shortly (1x), speedily (1x), straightway (1x), suddenly (1x).

  1. (Qal) to hasten

    1. (Niphal) to be hurried, be anxious

      1. hasty, precipitate, impetuous

    2. (Piel)

      1. to hasten, make haste

      2. hasten (used as adverb with another verb)

      3. to hasten, prepare quickly, do quickly, bring quickly

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָהַר mâhar, maw-har'; a primitive root; properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly:—be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) × quickly, rash, × shortly, (be so) × soon, make speed, × speedily, × straightway, × suddenly, swift.
STRONGS H4116: Abbreviations
† I. [מָהַר] verb hasten (Late Hebrew Pi.,and derivatives; Arabic bdb055404 be practised, skilled (with Assyrian mâru, send, order, govern, compare II. מהר); Ethiopic bdb055405 train teach; Syriac bdb055406 Pa. id.; compare also Egyptian māhar, trained warrior Bondi57); —
Niph. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular נִמְהָ֑רָה Job 5:13; Participle נִמְהָר Habakkuk 1:6; plural נִמְהָרִים Isaiah 32:4; construct נִמְהֲרֵי Isaiah 35:4; — be hurried = anxious, disturbed נְמְהֲרֵילֵֿב Isaiah 35:4; hasty, precipitate, subject עֵצָה Job 5:13; so participle as substantive Isaiah 32:4; impetuous, of Chaldeans, Habakkuk 1:6 (|| מַר).
Pi. Perfect מִהַר 1 Samuel 4:14; Isaiah 51:14; 3rd person feminine singular מִהֲרָה Jeremiah 48:16 etc.; Imperfect יְמַהֵר Isaiah 5:19 + 2 times; וַיְמַהֵר Genesis 18:6 + 8 times (1 Samuel 28:30 see below); 3rd person feminine plural תְּמַהֵרְנָה Jeremiah 9:17 etc.; Imperative masculine singular מַהֵר Genesis 19:22 +; מַהֲרָה 1 Samuel 23:27; 1 Kings 22:9, etc.; Infinitive construct מַהֵר Proverbs 7:23 +; Participle מְמַהֵר Genesis 41:32; Malachi 3:5 (on מַהֵר Zephaniah 1:14 [1 Samuel 23:22] compare Köi. 268 SchwZAW x. 1890, 176 see I. מַהֵר), feminine plural מְמַהֲרוֺת Proverbs 6:18; —
1. hasten, make haste, = go or come quickly Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 9:12 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit Bu HPS), Nahum 2:6; Isaiah 49:17; 1 Chronicles 12:9; = go eagerly, (followed by Infinitive of purpose) Proverbs 1:16; Isaiah 59:7; Participle = swift, prompt Malachi 3:5; of bird Proverbs 7:23; figurative of calamity Isaiah 5:19 (|| חוּשׁ) Jeremiah 48:16, מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז Isaiah 8:1, 3, below.
2. hasten + verb, (מ׳ having really adverbial force): followed by Infinitive Genesis 18:7 (מִהַר לַעֲשׂת); compare Genesis 27:20; Genesis 41:32 (subject God), Exodus 2:18; Exodus 10:16; Exodus 12:33; 2 Samuel 15:14; Isaiah 32:4; Isaiah 51:14; Proverbs 6:18; Ecclesiastes 5:1; more often followed by verb with ו Genesis 24:18, 20, 46; Genesis 44:11 (all J), Genesis 45:9, 13 (E), probably Genesis 43:30 (J), also Exodus 34:8 (J), Joshua 4:10; Joshua 8:14, 19 (all J E), Judges 13:10; 1 Samuel 4:14; 1 Samuel 17:48; 1 Samuel 23:27; 1 Samuel 25:18, 23, 34 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 28:24; 2 Samuel 15:14; 2 Samuel 19:17; 1 Kings 20:33, 41; 2 Kings 9:13; Jeremiah 9:17; so even when active is not wholly voluntary 1 Samuel 28:20 (but read probably וַיִּבָּהֵל Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit Bu); also, ו omitted, Psalm 106:13; especially with Imperative Genesis 19:22 (J), Judges 9:48; Esther 6:10; so also מַהֵר עֲנֵנִי Psalm 69:18; Psalm 102:3; Psalm 143:7; compare Psalm 79:8 (see Olon the passage).
3. transitive hasten, = prepare quickly Genesis 18:6; = bring quickly 1 Kings 22:9 2 Chronicles 18:8; Esther 5:5; = do quickly 2 Chronicles 24:5 (twice in verse).

I. מַהֵר adjective hastening, speedy, swift (strictly Pi. Participle for מְמַהֵר see below מהר); — of יוֺם י׳, מְאד קָרוֺב וּמ׳ Zephaniah 1:14; read also feminine הַמְּהֵרָה (רַגְלוֺ) 1 Samuel 23:22 his swift foot (for MT רָאָהוּ מִ׳ ר׳) Th We Dr Bu; deeper corruption assumed by HPS.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:6; 18:6; 18:6; 18:7; 19:22; 19:22; 24:18; 24:20; 24:46; 27:20; 41:32; 41:32; 43:30; 44:11; 45:9; 45:13

Exodus

2:18; 10:16; 12:33; 34:8

Joshua

4:10; 8:14; 8:19

Judges

9:48; 13:10

1 Samuel

4:14; 4:14; 9:12; 17:48; 23:22; 23:22; 23:27; 23:27; 25:18; 25:23; 25:34; 28:20; 28:24

2 Samuel

15:14; 15:14; 19:17

1 Kings

20:33; 20:41; 22:9; 22:9

2 Kings

9:13

1 Chronicles

12:9

2 Chronicles

18:8; 24:5

Esther

5:5; 6:10

Job

5:13; 5:13

Psalms

69:18; 79:8; 102:3; 106:13; 143:7

Proverbs

1:16; 6:18; 6:18; 7:23; 7:23

Ecclesiastes

5:1

Isaiah

5:19; 5:19; 8:1; 8:3; 32:4; 32:4; 32:4; 35:4; 35:4; 49:17; 51:14; 51:14; 59:7

Jeremiah

9:17; 9:17; 48:16; 48:16

Nahum

2:6

Habakkuk

1:6; 1:6

Zephaniah

1:14; 1:14

Malachi

3:5; 3:5

H4116

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Strong's Number H4116 matches the Hebrew מָהַר (māhar),
which occurs 64 times in 60 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Isa 32:4–Mal 3:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - The heart also of the rash H4116 shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready H4116 to speak plainly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:4 - Say to them that are of a fearful H4116 heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - Thy children shall make haste; H4116 thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:14 - The captive exile hasteneth H4116 that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste H4116 to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:18 - And let them make haste, H4116 and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 - The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth H4116 fast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 - He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste H4116 to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty H4116 nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift H4116 witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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