Strong's Hebrew: 4120. מְהֵרָה (meherah) -- haste, speed

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meherah: haste, speed

Original Word: מְהֵרָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: meherah
Phonetic Spelling: (meh-hay-raw')
Short Definition: quickly

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from mahar
Definition
haste, speed
NASB Translation
hurry (1), quickly (14), shortly (1), speed (1), speedily (2), swiftly (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְהֵרָה noun feminine haste, speed; — usually as adverb. accusative hastily, quickly: Joshua 8:19; Joshua 10:6; Joshua 23:16 (all J E), Numbers 17:11 (P), Deuteronomy 11:17; Judges 9:54; 2 Samuel 17:16,18,21; Jeremiah 27:16; Ecclesiastes 8:11 (in all these cases after verb); before verb (poetry) Isaiah 5:26 ("" קַל), Psalm 31:3; Psalm 37:2; Isaiah 58:8; Joel 4:4 ("" קַל); so also 1 Samuel 20:38 הוּשָׁה ׳מ (compare Dr); 2 Kings 1:11 רֵ֑דָה ׳מ; — but perhaps read מַהֲרָה, i.e. Pi`el Imperative of מהר (compare 1 Samuel 23:27); with preposition (late): ׳בִּמ in haste = quickly Ecclesiastes 4:12; ׳עַדמֿ id. Psalm 147:15.

Strong's

hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, make with speedily, swiftly

Feminine of maher; properly, a hurry; hence (adverbially) promptly -- hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, make (with) speed(-ily), swiftly.

see HEBREW maher