Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4120
מְהֵרָה
meherahmeh-hay-raw'
haste
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉhêrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4120is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4120
properly, a hurry; hence (adverbially) promptly
The King James renders it: hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, make (with) speed(-ily), swiftly.
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
meherah is rendered "haste". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Three of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
Numbers 16:46מְהֵרָ֛ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- quickly19
- in quickly1
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 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- מְהֵרָ֣ה2
- מְהֵרָ֗ה2
- מְהֵרָ֔ה2
- מְהֵרָ֜ה2
- מְהֵרָ֥ה2
- מְהֵרָ֑ה2
- בִמְהֵרָ֖ה1
- מְהֵרָ֪ה1
- מְ֝הֵרָ֗ה1
- מְהֵרָ֛ה1
- מְהֵרָ֨ה1
- מְהֵרָה֩1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adverb19HD
- preposition + adverb1HR/D
Numbers
one use
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- מְהֵרָ֛הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Deuteronomy
one use
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- מְהֵרָ֗הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Joshua
three uses
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.
- מְהֵרָ֨הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
- מְהֵרָ֗הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
- מְהֵרָ֔הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Judges
one use
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
- מְהֵרָ֜הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
1 Samuel
one use
Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
- מְהֵרָ֥הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
2 Samuel
three uses
Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”
- מְהֵרָה֩meherahadverbtagged: quickly
But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
- מְהֵרָ֜הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
- מְהֵרָה֙meherahadverbtagged: quickly
2 Kings
one use
So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down at once!’”
- מְהֵרָ֥הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Psalms
three uses
Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
- מְהֵרָ֪הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- מְהֵרָ֣הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
- מְ֝הֵרָ֗הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Ecclesiastes
two uses
And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
- בִמְהֵרָ֖הvimherahpreposition + adverbtagged: in quickly
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- מְהֵרָ֑הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Isaiah
two uses
He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
- מְהֵרָ֖הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- מְהֵרָ֣הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Jeremiah
one use
Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.
- מְהֵרָ֑הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
Joel
one use
Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
- מְהֵרָ֔הmeherahadverbtagged: quickly
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.