מָהַר
māhar
acquire by paying purchase-price
Strong's H4117VerbHebrewTWOT 1153

מָהַר (māhar) is a Hebrew verb meaning acquire by paying purchase-price. It appears 2 times in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4117).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1153)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1153)acquire by paying purchase-price; be liquid, flow, hurry, promptly, bargain, wed; be carried headlong, fearful, haste, hasten, hastily, hasty, rash, make speed, swift, endow
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מָהַר verb, denominative: acquire by paying purchase-price

Strong's H4116 מָהַר: 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
KJV:be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) × quickly, rash, × shortly, (be so) × soon, make speed, × speedily, × straightway, × suddenly, swift.

Strong's H4117 מָהַר: to bargain (for a wife), i.e. to wed
KJV:endow, × surely.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Exodus 22:16

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