Haste
מְהֵרָהStrong’s H4120meherah (me-he-rah)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meherah is the Hebrew word usually translated “quickly”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.”
Meaning
- Haste, speedhastily, speedily (as adverb) · in haste (with prep)
How it's translated
- quickly 20
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- Psalms 3
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Isaiah 2
- Numbers 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 11:17And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
- Joshua 8:19And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
- Joshua 10:6And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
- Joshua 23:16When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
- Judges 9:54Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
- 1 Samuel 20:38And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
Hebrew dictionary
מְהֵרָה meherah · haste
1) haste, speed 1a) hastily, speedily (as adverb) 1b) in haste (with prep)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “haste” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HASTE, noun
- Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals; never to other bodies.
- Sudden excitement of passion; quickness; precipitance; vehemence.“I said in my haste all men are liars” Psalms 116:11
- The state of being urged or pressed by business; as, I am in great haste
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.