מָהַר (ma.har) means “to hasten” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: maw-har' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מָהַר · ma.har · to hasten
1)(Qal) to hasten 1a) (Niphal) to be hurried, be anxious 1a) hasty, precipitate, impetuous 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to hasten, make haste 1b2) hasten (used as adverb with another verb) 1b3) to hasten, prepare quickly, do quickly, bring quickly
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a primitive root; properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly
KJV glosses: be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) [idiom] quickly, rash, [idiom] shortly, (be so) [idiom] soon, make speed, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] straightway, [idiom] suddenly, swift.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| quickly | 13 |
| hurried | 6 |
| hurry | 5 |
| and she quickly | 3 |
| bring | 2 |
| immediately | 2 |
| she quickly | 2 |
| a swift | 1 |
| and fluently | 1 |
| and immediately | 1 |
| and impetuous | 1 |
| and sweeps away | 1 |
| and they are swift | 1 |
| and they quickly | 1 |
| and who were as swift | 1 |
| be hasty | 1 |
| darting | 1 |
| hasten back | 1 |
| he hurried | 1 |
| he will soon | 1 |
| hurried over | 1 |
| is rushing | 1 |
| let him hurry | 1 |
| let them come quickly | 1 |
| make haste | 1 |
| of the rash | 1 |
| one quickly | 1 |
| quick prepare | 1 |
| shortly | 1 |
| so early | 1 |
| swiftly | 1 |
| then the prophet quickly | 1 |
| they are swift | 1 |
| they race | 1 |
| to those who chase | 1 |
| to those with anxious | 1 |
| who hurried | 1 |
| will soon | 1 |
| yet they soon | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| hasted | 4 |
| made haste | 4 |
| and she hasted | 3 |
| haste | 3 |
| and he hasted | 2 |
| hasten | 2 |
| hastened | 2 |
| hasteth | 2 |
| in haste | 2 |
| make haste | 2 |
| also of the rash | 1 |
| and hasty | 1 |
| and i will be a swift | 1 |
| and let them make haste | 1 |
| and make haste | 1 |
| and see that ye hasten | 1 |
| and she made haste | 1 |
| and they make haste | 1 |
| and ye shall haste | 1 |
| as swift | 1 |
| be hasty | 1 |
| fetch quickly | 1 |
| from him and did hastily | 1 |
| hasteneth | 1 |
| in hastily | 1 |
| is carried headlong | 1 |
| it and hasted | 1 |
| let him make speed | 1 |
| make ready quickly | 1 |
| make speed | 1 |
| of a fearful | 1 |
| shall be ready | 1 |
| shall make haste | 1 |
| she hasted | 1 |
| so quickly | 1 |
| so soon | 1 |
| straightway | 1 |
| that be swift | 1 |
| that they hasted | 1 |
| then they hasted | 1 |
| then they speedily | 1 |
| they shall make haste | 1 |
| they soon | 1 |
| thou hadst hasted | 1 |
| to make haste | 1 |
| us suddenly | 1 |
| will shortly | 1 |
| you make haste | 1 |
Page 1 of 2. 64 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
Read word by wordHurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
Read word by word“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Read word by wordAnd she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
Read word by wordShe quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
Read word by wordBut Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
Read word by wordMoreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.
Read word by wordJoseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
Read word by wordSo each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.
Read word by wordNow return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
Read word by wordTell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
Read word by wordWhen the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
Read word by wordPharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
Read word by wordAnd in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
Read word by wordMoses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
Read word by wordNow the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,
Read word by wordWhen the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
Read word by wordand as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
Read word by wordhe and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
Read word by wordThe woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
Read word by wordEli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.
Read word by word“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.
Read word by wordAs the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
Read word by wordThen a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”
Read word by wordThen Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
Read word by wordWhen Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
Read word by wordOtherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
Read word by wordSo Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
Read word by wordImmediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
Read word by wordThe woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
Read word by wordAnd David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
Read word by wordThen Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.17
Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then Ben-hadad came out, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.
Read word by wordThen the prophet quickly removed the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
Read word by wordSo the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
Read word by wordQuickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
Read word by wordSome Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.9
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
Read word by wordSo he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.
Read word by word“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Read word by word“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
Read word by wordHe catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
Read word by wordSorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.
Read word by wordHide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 69.18
Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
Read word by wordDo not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.3
Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Read word by wordAnswer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
Read word by wordFor their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
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