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מָהַהּ

mahah · linger

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4102 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

mahah (מָהַהּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “linger”.

Delay, hesitate.

How to say it

ma·hah

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. To hang back, not get going.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • delay ×2
  • delayed ×2
  • linger ×2
  • he lingered ×1
  • it delays ×1
  • will wait ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 19:16

    But he lingered; so the men seized his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hand of his two daughters, because of YHWH’s compassion for him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

  • Genesis 43:10

    For if we had not delayed, by now we would have returned twice.”

  • Exodus 12:39

    They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread, for it was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

  • Judges 3:26

    Ehud escaped while they delayed; he passed the carved images and escaped to Seirah.

  • Judges 19:8

    On the fifth day he rose early in the morning to go, and the father of the young woman said, “Sustain, please, your heart, and linger until the day declines.” So the two of them ate.

  • 2 Samuel 15:28

    Look, I will wait in the plains of the wilderness until word comes from you to tell me.”

  • Psalms 119:60

    I hurried and did not delay to keep your commandments.

  • Isaiah 29:9

    Linger and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they sway, but not with intoxicating drink.

  • Habakkuk 2:3

    For the vision is yet for the appointed time; and it hastens toward the end, and it will not lie. If it delays, wait for it, for it will surely come; it will not be late.