מָהַר

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Genesis 18:6

• וַיְמַהֵ֧רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried
• מַהֲרִ֞יmahariverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: bring quickly

Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.

Genesis 18:7

• וַיְמַהֵ֖רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried

Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.

Genesis 19:22

• מַהֵר֙maherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hurry

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24:18

• וַתְּמַהֵ֗רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she hurried

And 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.

Genesis 24:20

• וַתְּמַהֵ֗רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she hurried

She 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.

Genesis 24:46

• וַתְּמַהֵ֗רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she hurried

But 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.

Genesis 27:20

• מִהַ֥רְתָּmihartaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you hastened

Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.

Genesis 41:32

• וּמְמַהֵ֥רumemaherconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: and hurrying

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

Genesis 43:30

• וַיְמַהֵ֣רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Genesis 44:11

• וַֽיְמַהֲר֗וּvaymaharuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hurried

Now 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.

Genesis 45:9

• מַהֲרוּ֮maharuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: hurry

Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

Genesis 45:13

• וּמִֽהַרְתֶּ֛םumihartemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will hurry

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

Exodus 2:18

• מִהַרְתֶּ֥ןmihartenverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: did you hurry

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

Exodus 10:16

• וַיְמַהֵ֣רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried

And 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!”

Exodus 12:33

• לְמַהֵ֖רlemaherpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hurry

Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

Exodus 34:8

• וַיְמַהֵ֖רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried

Now 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,

Joshua 4:10

• וַיְמַהֲר֥וּvaymaharuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hurried

When 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.

Joshua 8:14

• וַֽיְמַהֲר֡וּvaymaharuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hurried

and 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.

Joshua 8:19

• וַֽיְמַהֲר֔וּvaymaharuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hurried

he 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.”

Judges 9:48

• מַהֲר֖וּmaharuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: hurry

The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”

Judges 13:10

• וַתְּמַהֵר֙vatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she made haste

Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.

1 Samuel 4:14

• מִהַ֔רmiharverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hurried

“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.

1 Samuel 9:12

• מַהֵ֣ר׀maherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hurry

As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.

1 Samuel 17:48

• וַיְמַהֵ֣רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried

Then a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

1 Samuel 23:27

• מַהֲרָ֣הmaharahverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: make haste

Then 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

1 Samuel 25:18

• וַתְּמַהֵ֣רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she made haste

When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

1 Samuel 25:23

• וַתְּמַהֵ֕רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she made haste

Otherwise, 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.”

1 Samuel 25:34

• מִהַ֗רְתְּmihartverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you had made haste

So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25:42

• וַתְּמַהֵ֞רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she made haste

Immediately 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.

1 Samuel 28:20

• וַיְמַהֵ֣רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made haste

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

1 Samuel 28:24

• וַתְּמַהֵ֖רvatemaherHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she made haste

And 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.”

2 Samuel 15:14

• מַהֲר֣וּmaharuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: hurry
• יְמַהֵ֤רyemaherverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he should hurry

Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,

2 Samuel 19:16

• וַיְמַהֵ֗רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hurried

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.

1 Kings 20:33

• וַֽיְמַהֲר֜וּvaymaharuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hastened

Then the prophet quickly removed the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

1 Kings 20:41

• וַיְמַהֵ֕רvaymaherHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he hastened

So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

1 Kings 22:9

• מַהֲרָ֖הmaharahverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: bring quickly

Quickly, 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!”

2 Kings 9:13

• וַֽיְמַהֲר֗וּvaymaharuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hurried

Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. 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:

1 Chronicles 12:8

• לְמַהֵֽר׃ סlemaherpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hastening

So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

2 Chronicles 18:8

• מַהֵ֖רmaherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bring quickly

So 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.

2 Chronicles 24:5

• תְּמַהֲר֣וּtemaharuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will do quickly
• מִֽהֲר֖וּmiharuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they acted quickly

“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.

Esther 5:5

• מַהֲרוּ֙maharuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bring quickly

“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.”

Esther 6:10

• מַ֠הֵרmaherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hurry

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Job 5:13

• נִמְהָֽרָה׃nimharahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is hasty

Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.

Psalms 16:4

• מָ֫הָ֥רוּmaharuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they hurried after

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

Psalms 69:17

• מַהֵ֥רmaherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hurry

Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

Psalms 79:8

• מַ֭הֵרmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

Psalms 102:2

• מַהֵ֥רmaherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hurry

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

Psalms 106:13

• מִֽ֭הֲרוּmiharuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they made haste

Answer 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.

Psalms 143:7

• מַ֘הֵ֤רmaherverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hurry

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16

• וִֽ֝ימַהֲר֗וּvimaharuHC/Vpu3mptagged: and they may make haste

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

Proverbs 6:18

• מְ֝מַהֲר֗וֹתmemaharotverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: hurry

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:23

• כְּמַהֵ֣רkemaherpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as hurries

Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

• יְמַהֵ֛רyemaherverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it hasten

to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

Isaiah 5:19

• יְמַהֵ֧ר׀yemaherverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it hurry

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

Isaiah 32:4

• נִמְהָרִ֖יםnimharimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: hasty
• תְּמַהֵ֖רtemaherverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will hasten

Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”

Isaiah 35:4

• לְנִמְהֲרֵי־lenimharei-preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to hasty of

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

Isaiah 49:17

• מִֽהֲר֖וּmiharuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have made haste

The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

Isaiah 51:14

• מִהַ֥רmiharverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will hasten

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Isaiah 59:7

• וִֽימַהֲר֔וּvimaharuHC/Vpu3mptagged: and they may hasten

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Jeremiah 9:18

• וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָהutemaherenahHC/Vpu3fptagged: and they may hasten

Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.

Jeremiah 48:16

• מִהֲרָ֖הmiharahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will hasten

He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

Nahum 2:5

• יְמַֽהֲרוּ֙yemaharuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they hurry

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk 1:6

• וְהַנִּמְהָ֑רvehanimharconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the impetuous

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:5

• מְמַהֵ֗רmemaherverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: hastening