mehera · haste, quickly

What it means

mehera (מְהֵרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “haste, quickly”.

Haste; as an adverb, "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. Quickly and without waiting for more.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• quickly ×15
• swiftly ×2
• once ×1
• shortly ×1
• speedily ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1

• Numbers 16:46

  And Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer and put fire in it from the altar, and lay on it incense, and carry it quickly to the community and make expiation for them, for wrath has gone out from the presence of YHWH; the plague has begun.”

• Deuteronomy 11:17

  and the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, and the ground does not yield its produce, and you perish quickly from the good land that YHWH is giving you.

• 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.

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not let your hands go from your servants. Come up to us quickly, save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorite who live in the hill country have gathered against us.”

• Joshua 23:16

  When you transgress the covenant of YHWH your Elohim that he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of YHWH will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land that he has given you.”

• Judges 9:54

  He called at once to the young man who carried his weapons and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his young man ran him through, and he died.

• 1 Samuel 20:38

  Jonathan called after the boy, “Quickly, hurry, do not stand still!” And the boy of Jonathan gathered the arrows and came to his master.

• 2 Samuel 17:16

  Now then, send quickly and tell David, saying, ‘Do not spend the night tonight in the plains of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over, or the king and all the people who are with him will be swallowed up.’”

• 2 Samuel 17:18

  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them went quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down there.

• 2 Samuel 17:21

  After they had gone, they came up out of the well and went and told King David; they said to David, “Get up and cross the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has counseled against you.”

• 2 Kings 1:11

  Again he sent to him another commander of fifty with his fifty. He answered and spoke to him, “Man of Elohim, thus says the king: ‘Come down quickly.’”

• Psalms 31:2

  Turn your ear to me; quickly deliver me; be for me a rock that is a stronghold, a house of fortresses to save me.

• Psalms 37:2

  For like the grass quickly they will be cut down, and like the green of the pasture they will wither.

• Psalms 147:15

  He sends his saying to the earth; his word runs very swiftly.

• Ecclesiastes 4:12

  And if one overpowers him, the two will stand against him; and the threefold cord is not quickly broken.

• Ecclesiastes 8:11

  Because the sentence against the evil work is not carried out quickly, therefore the heart of human beings is full in them to do evil.

• Isaiah 5:26

  And he will raise a banner for the nations from afar, and whistle for it from the end of the earth; and look, swiftly, speedily it comes.

• Isaiah 58:8

  Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will sprout quickly; and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of YHWH will gather you.

• Jeremiah 27:16

  And to the priests and to all this people I spoke, saying, “Thus says YHWH: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, the vessels of the house of YHWH will be brought back from Babylon now, shortly,’ for they are prophesying falsehood to you.

• Joel 3:4

  And also, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back a recompense? And if you are repaying me, swiftly, speedily I will return your recompense on your head.