Hebrew adjective · H4118
מַהֵר
mahermah-hare'
quick; quickly
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mahêr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4118is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4118
properly, hurrying; hence (adverbially) in ahurry
The King James renders it: hasteth, hastily, at once, quickly, soon, speedily, suddenly.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maher is rendered "quick; quickly". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "quick".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 32:8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
Exodus 32:8מַהֵ֗ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's fourteen uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: quick, and quickly.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| quickStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 32:8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for… |
| quicklyStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- quickly13
- and hurrying1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַהֵ֔ר4
- מַהֵ֗ר3
- וּמַהֵ֣ר1
- מַהֵר֒1
- מַהֵר֙1
- מַהֵ֛ר1
- מַהֵ֑ר1
- מַ֫הֵ֥ר1
- מַהֵֽר׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)13HVpcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/Vpcc
Exodus
one use
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
- מַהֵ֗רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
Deuteronomy
eight uses
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- מַהֵר֒maherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
- מַהֵֽר׃maherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
- מַהֵ֔רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
- מַהֵ֔רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
- מַהֵר֙maherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
- מַהֵ֗רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
- מַהֵ֔רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
- מַהֵ֔רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
Joshua
one use
At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”
- מַהֵ֛רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
Judges
two uses
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
- מַהֵ֗רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
- מַהֵ֑רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
Proverbs
one use
do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?
- מַ֫הֵ֥רmaherverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: quickly
Zephaniah
one use
The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.
- וּמַהֵ֣רumaherconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and hurrying
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.