maher · quickly

What it means

maher (מַהֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “quickly”.

In haste.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Without waiting, at once; sometimes, sooner than it should happen.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• quickly ×14
• hurry ×2
• hastening ×1
• hastily ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×8
• Joshua×1
• Judges×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Exodus 32:8

  They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of cast metal and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

• Deuteronomy 4:26

  I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that you will surely perish quickly from the land to which you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not prolong your days on it, but you will surely be destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 7:4

  for he will turn away your son from following me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of YHWH will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.

• Deuteronomy 7:22

  YHWH your Elohim will clear away these nations from before you little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, lest the animals of the field multiply against you.

• Deuteronomy 9:3

  Know today that YHWH your Elohim, he is the one who crosses over before you as a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; and you will dispossess them and make them perish quickly, as YHWH has spoken to you.

• Deuteronomy 9:12

  YHWH said to me, “Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a cast image.”

• Deuteronomy 9:16

  I looked, and look, you had sinned against YHWH your Elohim; you had made for yourselves a cast calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way that YHWH had commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  YHWH will send on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all that you undertake with your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

• Joshua 2:5

  When the gate was about to be shut at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”

• Judges 2:17

  Yet even to their judges they did not listen, for they prostituted themselves after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked, listening to the commandments of YHWH; they did not do so.

• Judges 2:23

  So YHWH left these nations, not dispossessing them quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

• Psalms 69:17

  And do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; hurry, answer me.

• Psalms 79:8

  Do not remember against us the iniquities of the ancestors; quickly let your compassion come to meet us, for we have been brought low greatly.

• Psalms 102:2

  Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline to me your ear; in the day I call, hurry, answer me.

• Psalms 143:7

  Answer me quickly, YHWH; my spirit is consumed; do not hide your face from me, and I would become like those who go down to the pit.

• Proverbs 25:8

  Do not go out to court hastily, lest— what will you do in the end of it, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

• Zephaniah 1:14

  Near is the great day of YHWH, near and hastening greatly; the sound of the day of YHWH: bitterly there the mighty man raises the war cry.

And 1 more times.