Quick
מַהֵרStrong’s H4118maher (ma-her)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maher is the Hebrew word usually translated “quickly” and “hurrying”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Adj
- Adv
How it's translated
- quickly 13
- and hurrying 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 7
- Judges 2
- Exodus 1
- Joshua 1
- Proverbs 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 7:4For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
- Deuteronomy 7:22And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
- Deuteronomy 9:3Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 9:12And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
Hebrew dictionary
מַהֵר maher · quick
adj hurrying, speedy, swift, hastening
מַהֵר maher · quickly
adv quickly, speedily
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.