מָהִיר
mahir · skilled
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4106 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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mahir (מָהִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “skilled”.
Expert; literally "quick". Said of the scribe who masters his craft.
How to say it
ma·hir
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
- Good at one's trade; quick.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- skilled ×2
- skillful ×1
- swift ×1
Where it appears
- Ezra 7:6
this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had given; and the king gave him, according to the hand of YHWH his Elohim upon him, all he requested.
- Psalms 45:1
For the director. On The Lilies. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil. A song of loves. My heart overflows with a good word; I speak my works to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful scribe.
- Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
- Isaiah 16:5
And a throne will be established in loyal love, and one will sit on it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and swift in righteousness.