H4116 - מָהַר (mâhar)

H4116 מָהַר (mâhar) maw-har'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

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

KJV Usage: be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) X quickly, rash, X shortly, (be so) X soon, make speed, X speedily, X straightway, X suddenly, swift

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מָהַר (ma.har) — to hasten. 1)(Qal) to hasten 1a) (Niphal) to be hurried, be anxious 1a) hasty, precipitate, impetuous 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to hasten, make haste 1b2) hasten (used as adverb with another verb) 1b3) to hasten, prepare quickly, do quickly, bring quickly

מָהַר (ma.har) — to buy. acquire by paying purchase-price

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מהר (H4116 · H4117 · H4118a · H4118b) — מַהֵר

verb · מָהִיר · מְהֵרָה

Urge | verb pi

to act quickly, to hasten = action by which humans or deities act without delay

GEN 18:6 · GEN 18:6 · GEN 18:7 · GEN 19:22 · GEN 24:18 · GEN 24:20 · GEN 24:46 · GEN 27:20 · GEN 41:32 · GEN 44:11 · GEN 45:9 · GEN 45:13 · EXO 2:18 · EXO 10:16 · EXO 12:33 · EXO 32:8 · EXO 34:8 · DEU 7:4 · DEU 7:22 · DEU 9:3 · DEU 9:12 · DEU 9:12 · DEU 9:16 · JOS 2:5 · JOS 4:10 · JOS 8:14 · JOS 8:19 · JDG 2:17 · JDG 2:23 · JDG 9:48 · JDG 13:10 · 1SA 4:14 · 1SA 17:48 · 1SA 23:27 · 1SA 25:18 · 1SA 25:23 · 1SA 25:34 · 1SA 25:42 · 1SA 28:20 · 1SA 28:24 · 2SA 15:14 · 2SA 15:14 · 2SA 19:17 · 1KI 20:33 · 1KI 20:41 · 2KI 9:13 · 2CH 24:5 · 2CH 24:5 · EST 6:10 · PSA 69:18 · PSA 102:3 · PSA 106:13 · PSA 143:7 · PRO 1:16 · PRO 6:18 · PRO 25:8 · ISA 5:19 · ISA 49:17 · ISA 59:7 · JER 9:17 · MAL 3:5

Afraid | verb nif

Collocation: נִמְהַר־לֵב

to be fearful literally: hastened of heart; hence: = state in which humans experience an emotion of fear and anxiety which does not allow them to find peace of mind

ISA 35:4

Angry | verb nif | ≈ מַר

to be rash, to be impetuous literally: hastened; hence: = state in which humans are inclined to act rashly, out of anger or a lack of patience

ISA 32:4 · HAB 1:6

Associate

to run after literally: to hasten (after a deity); hence: = process by which humans are eager to serve a certain deity

PSA 16:4

Fail | verb nif

to fail, to go awry literally: to be caused to happen quickly; hence: = process by which an event fails and comes to a quick end

JOB 5:13

Happen | verb pi

to happen soon = process by which an event happens without delay

DEU 4:26 · DEU 28:20 · PSA 79:8 · ECC 5:1 · ISA 32:4 · ISA 51:14 · JER 48:16 · ZEP 1:14

Move | verb pi

to go quickly, to hasten = action by which humans or animals move quickly

GEN 43:30 · 1SA 9:12 · 1CH 12:9 · PRO 7:23 · NAM 2:6

Move | verb pi

to bring quickly = causative action by which humans cause other humans to move quickly

1KI 22:9 · 2CH 18:8 · EST 5:5

verb · מֹהַר

Associate | verb qal

to acquire as wife, to marry by paying a bride-price = action by which a man makes a woman his wife by paying the bride-price

EXO 22:15 · EXO 22:15

¹ PSA 16:4 RSV NRSV "choose" = בחר

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מָהַר] vb. hasten Niph. be hurried = anxious, disturbed; hasty, precipitate; impetuous

Pi. hasten, make haste = go or come quickly

hasten vb.

trans. hasten, = prepare quickly; = bring quickly; = do quickly

base

מָהַר vb. denom. acquire by paying purchase-price base