mahar · hurry

What it means

mahar (מָהַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hurry”.

Do something quickly; "quickly".

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. To act without delay, with haste and energy.
2. To act without thinking in haste, or be swept along by fear.
3. Another word spelled the same: to pay a bride-price.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To hurry, do something quickly; in the infinitive, as an adverb, soon, quickly. Of the same root is מַהֵר (quickly).

• Serving a guest in haste Genesis 18:6Genesis 18:7Genesis 24:18
• Hurrying to bow down Exodus 34:8
• Running to evil Proverbs 1:16Isaiah 59:7
• “Quickly they forgot his works” Psalms 106:13
• The scoffer who asks God to hurry Isaiah 5:19

How we translate it

“Hurry” 21 times, “hurried” 19; “Quickly” 12 when it works as an adverb (Psalm 106:13; 1 Kings 22:9). In Genesis 18:6-7 the verb repeats to show Abraham's diligence with his guests: “Abraham hurried”, “Quickly”, “who hurried”.

How it is translated

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

• hurry ×21
• hurried ×19
• Quickly ×12
• hasty ×3
• Soon ×1
• hastens ×1
• hurries ×1
• hurrying ×1
• once ×1
• rushed headlong ×1
• others ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×13
• Exodus×4
• Joshua×3
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×10
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Esther×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×2
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 18:6

  So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

• Genesis 18:7

  And to the herd Abraham ran, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the young man, who hurried to prepare it.

• Genesis 19:22

  Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” That is why the name of the city was called Zoar.

• Genesis 24:18

  She said, “Drink, my lord.” And she quickly lowered her jar onto her hand and gave him a drink.

• Genesis 24:20

  She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

• Genesis 24:46

  She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels too.

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because YHWH your Elohim made it happen before me.”

• Genesis 41:32

  As for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is fixed by Elohim, and Elohim is hurrying to do it.

• Genesis 43:30

  Joseph hurried out, for his inner parts were stirred for his brother, and he sought a place to weep; he went into the inner room and wept there.

• Genesis 44:11

  Quickly each man lowered his bag to the ground, and each man opened his bag.

• Genesis 45:9

  Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: Elohim has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; do not delay.

• Genesis 45:13

  Tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and all that you have seen, and hurry and bring down my father here.”

• Exodus 2:18

  When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “Why have you come so quickly today?”

• Exodus 10:16

  Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against YHWH your Elohim and against you.

• Exodus 12:33

  The Egyptians pressed the people to hurry and send them out of the land, for they said, “We are all going to die!”

• Exodus 34:8

  And Moses hurried to bow to the ground and worshiped.

• Joshua 4:10

  The priests carrying the ark were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that YHWH had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and crossed.

• Joshua 8:14

  And it came about, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the appointed time before the Arabah; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

• Joshua 8:19

  And the ambush rose quickly from its place, and they ran as soon as he stretched out his hand, and entered the city and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

• Judges 9:48

  Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took the axes in his hand, cut down a branch of the trees, lifted it and put it on his shoulder; and he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry, do as I have done.”

• Judges 13:10

  So the woman hurried and ran and told her husband; she said to him, “Look, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me!”

• 1 Samuel 4:14

  And Eli heard the sound of the outcry and said, “What is the sound of this tumult?” And the man hurried and came and told Eli.

• 1 Samuel 9:12

  And they answered them and said, “He is; look, he is ahead of you. Hurry now, for today he has come to the city, for the people have a sacrifice today at the high place.

• 1 Samuel 17:48

  And it came about, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran to the battle line to meet the Philistine.

• 1 Samuel 23:27

  But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have raided the land.”

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed down to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 25:34

  For indeed, as YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, who has kept me back from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal, by the light of morning, so much as one who urinates against a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:42

  Abigail hurried and arose and rode on the donkey, with her five young women who went at her feet; she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.

• 1 Samuel 28:20

  At once Saul fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was also no strength in him, for he had not eaten bread all day and all night.

• 1 Samuel 28:24

  The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she hurried and sacrificed it; she took flour, kneaded it, and baked it into unleavened bread.

• 2 Samuel 15:14

  David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, “Get up, and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry to go, or he will quickly overtake us and bring the evil down on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

• 2 Samuel 19:16

  Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite, who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.

• 1 Kings 20:33

  The men took it as an omen, and quickly caught it up whether it came from him, and said, “Your brother Ben-hadad.” He said, “Go, bring him.” Ben-hadad came out to him, and he had him come up into the chariot.

• 1 Kings 20:41

  He hurried and removed the bandage from over his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was one of the prophets.

• 1 Kings 22:9

  The king of Israel called to an officer and said, “Quickly, bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

• 2 Kings 9:13

  They hurried, and each man took his garment and they put it under him on the bare steps; and they blew the shofar and said, “Jehu is king!”

• 1 Chronicles 12:8

  From the Gadites there separated themselves and went to David, to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty warriors, men of the army for war, who handled shield and spear; their faces were the faces of a lion, and they were like gazelles on the mountains in swiftness.

• 2 Chronicles 18:8

  The king of Israel called to an officer and said, “Quickly, bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:5

  He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel silver to repair the house of your Elohim year by year; and you, hurry in the matter.” But the Levites did not hurry.

And 24 more times.