Quick
מָהִירStrong’s H4106mahir (ma-hir)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mahir is the Hebrew word usually translated “skilled” and “prompt of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.”
Meaning
- Quick, prompt, skilled, ready
How it's translated
- skilled 3
- and prompt of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 45:1My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
- Proverbs 22:29Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
- Isaiah 16:5And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Hebrew dictionary
מָהִיר mahir · quick
quick, prompt, skilled, ready
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quick” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUICK, verb intransitive
All definitions and other forms of “quick”
QUICK, adjective
[If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the Latin vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.]
- Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Leviticus 13:10“The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead” 2 Timothy 4:1
- Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.
- Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.
- Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready.
- Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.
QUICK, adverb
- Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick
- Soon; in a short time; without delay.
QUICK, noun
- A living animal. obsolete
- The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick
- Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick
QUICK, verb transitive
To revive; to make alive. obsolete
QUICK, verb intransitive
To become alive. obsolete
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.