מָהַר
mâhar · maw-har'
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
Lexicon
Derivation: 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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) [idiom] quickly, rash, [idiom] shortly, (be so) [idiom] soon, make speed, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] straightway, [idiom] suddenly, swift.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold › the head, the highest
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָהַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
68 occurrences · 68 OT · 0 NT · 60 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- made haste4 · 10%
- hasted4 · 10%
- haste3 · 8%
- and she hasted3 · 8%
- hastened2 · 5%
- and he hasted2 · 5%
- in haste2 · 5%
- make haste2 · 5%
- hasteth2 · 5%
- make ready quickly1 · 3%
- and she made haste1 · 3%
- it so quickly1 · 3%
- will shortly1 · 3%
- then they speedily1 · 3%
- and ye shall haste1 · 3%
- so soon1 · 3%
- it, that they hasted1 · 3%
- it, and hasted1 · 3%
- in hastily1 · 3%
- you: make haste1 · 3%
- she hasted1 · 3%
- thou hadst hasted1 · 3%
- straightway1 · 3%
- make speed1 · 3%
- us suddenly1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.