1. מָהַר
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The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיְמַהֵ֧ר
mahar · vb. denom
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 64 · 2.09/10k
Senses
2. מָהַר
hasten
3. מָהַר
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
Attestations
- וַ/יְמַהֵ֧ר Genesis 18:6 (BHS)
- מַהֲרִ֞י Genesis 18:6 (BHS)
- וַ/יְמַהֵ֖ר Genesis 18:7 (BHS)
- מַהֵר֙ Genesis 19:22 (BHS)
- וַ/תְּמַהֵ֗ר Genesis 24:18 (BHS)
- וַ/תְּמַהֵ֗ר Genesis 24:20 (BHS)
6 of 64 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.