Bible word study

Mahar (Strong’s H4116): Meaning in the Bible

Mahar (מָהַר) is the Hebrew word numbered H4116 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly. In the King James Bible it is translated be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n.

• Original wordמָהַר
• Transliterationmâhar
• Pronunciationmaw-har'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH4116
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Mahar appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mahar (H4116) stands behind 64 English renderings in 60 verses across 20 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (13), 1 Samuel (10), Isaiah (7).

How the King James Bible renders Mahar, by count

• haste20 of 64 (31 percent)
• hasted14 of 64 (22 percent)
• hasten3 of 64 (5 percent)
• quickly3 of 64 (5 percent)
• swift3 of 64 (5 percent)
• hastened2 of 64 (3 percent)

Three places to read Mahar

• Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
• Judges 13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
• Esther 5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Mahar in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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