Strong's #4116: mahar (pronounced maw-har')
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:--be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) X quickly, rash, X shortly, (be so) X soon, make speed, X speedily, X straightway, X suddenly, swift.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mâhar
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 68 times:
Psalms 106:13: " They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:"
Psalms 143:7: "Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face"
Proverbs 1:16: "their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood."
Proverbs 6:18: "wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,"
Proverbs 7:23: "strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not"
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God:"
Isaiah 5:19: "That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One"
Isaiah 32:4: "The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak"
Isaiah 32:4: "knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly."
Isaiah 35:4: "Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God"
Isaiah 49:17: "Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of"
Isaiah 51:14: "The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread"
Isaiah 59:7: "Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts"
Jeremiah 9:18: " And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids"
Jeremiah 48:16: "is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast."
Nahum 2:5: "his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared."
Habakkuk 1:6: "the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land,"
Malachi 3:5: "to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false"
