Strong's #4102: mahahh (pronounced maw-hah')

apparently a denominative from 4100; properly, to question or hesitate, i.e. (by implication) to be reluctant:--delay, linger, stay selves, tarry.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mâhahh

1) (Hithpalpel) to linger, tarry, wait, delay

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: apparently a denominative from H4100

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Genesis 19:16: " And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two"
Genesis 43:10: "For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time."
Exodus 12:39: "because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither"
Judges 3:26: "And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped"
Judges 19:8: "Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat"
2 Samuel 15:28: "See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word"
Psalms 119:60: "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments."
Isaiah 29:9: " Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,"
Habakkuk 2:3: "and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come,"