To delay
מָהַהּStrong’s H4102mahah (ma-hah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “delay”, “delayed” and “we had delayed”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.”
Meaning
- (Hithpalpel) to linger, tarry, wait, delay
How it's translated
- delay 2
- and he delayed 1
- we had delayed 1
- to delay 1
- delayed they 1
- and delay 1
- i have delayed 1
- it will delay 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Judges 2
- Exodus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 43:10For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
- Exodus 12:39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
- Judges 3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
- Judges 19:8And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
- 2 Samuel 15:28See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
- Psalms 119:60I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Hebrew dictionary
מָהַהּ mahah · to delay
(Hithpalpel) to linger, tarry, wait, delay
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “delay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELAY, verb transitive
- To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer.“My lord delayeth his coming” Matthew 24:48
- To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delated by bad roads.
- To allay.
All definitions and other forms of “delay”
DELAY, verb intransitive
To linger; to move slow; or to stop for a time.
DELAY, noun
- A lingering; stay; stop.
- A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintiff.
- Hinderance for a time.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.