מָהַר mâhar — properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication)
Translated in the KJV as be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), hasty, (fetch, make ready) × quickly, rash, × shortly, × soon.
a primitive root; 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.
mâhar in each stem
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 23Imperative 11Perfect (qatal) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Participle (active) 3Infinitive construct 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Jussive 1
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.
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›