מְהֵרָה
mᵉhêrâh · H4120 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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quickly, with haste
Action by which humans or deities act without delay
ExamplesNumbers 16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put fire in it from the altar, and place incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD, the plague has begun!”
Joshua 8:19 Then the men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had reached out with his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire.
Joshua 10:6 Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that live in the hill country have assembled against us.”
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soon, swiftly
Process by which an event happens without delay
ExamplesDeuteronomy 11:17 “Otherwise, the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
Joshua 23:16 “When you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”
Psalm 37:2 For they will wither quickly like the grass, And decay like the green plants.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 1
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חִישׁ chîysh · H2440 · quickly
- Both words are temporal or speed adverbs, including the shared sense 'soon'. חִישׁ (chîysh, H2440) is extremely rare, attested only once.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ταχύ tachý · G5035 · quickly, hurriedly, swift
- Greek ταχύ (tachý, G5035) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew מְהֵרָה (mᵉhêrâh, H4120), both denoting rapidity of action or temporal immediacy ('quickly, soon, swiftly').
- ταχέως tachéōs · G5030 · quickly, hurriedly, swift
- מְהֵרָה (mᵉhêrâh, H4120) and ταχέως (tachéōs, G5030) both denote rapid temporal or manner execution ('quickly/speedily'), representing direct cross-linguistic equivalence in the LXX's standard rendering of Hebrew hastiness/speed terminology into Greek adverbial speed expressions.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Urge002003003023
- מְהֵרָה denotes haste or speed, as reflected in its gloss 'hastily, quickly, shortly, soon,' sharing its urgency sense with the related verb מָהַר.
- Happen002002003003
- The word also marks how soon an event will take place, as reflected in its gloss 'shortly, soon,' tying the haste sense to the swift occurrence of something anticipated.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4120. meherah מְהֵרָה noun feminine haste, speed; — usually as adverb. accusative…
מְהֵרָה noun feminine haste, speed; — usually as adverb. accusative hastily, quickly: Jos 8:19; Jos 10:6; Jos 23:16 (all J E), Num 17:11 (P), Deu 11:17; Jdg 9:54; 2Sa 17:16, 2Sa 17:18, 2Sa 17:21; Jer 27:16; Ecc 8:11 (in all these cases after verb); before verb (poetry) Isa 5:26 (|| קַל), Psa 31:3; Psa 37:2; Isa 58:8; Joel 4:4 (|| קַל); so also 1Sa 20:38 ׳מ הוּשָׁה (compare Dr); 2Ki 1:11 ׳מ רֵ֑דָה; — but perhaps read מַהֲרָה, i.e. Pi`el Imperative of מהר (compare 1Sa 23:27); with preposition (late): ׳בִּמ in haste = quickly Ecc 4:12; ׳עַדמֿ id. Psa 147:15.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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