ma.har denotes acting or moving with urgency, and can describe people or events as swift or hasty.

The verb most often marks an urgent action or command to act without delay, whether someone runs, prepares, comes, flees, or carries out an order. In a smaller group of passages, participial and related forms describe persons, counsel, distress, or an approaching act as swift, hasty, or rapidly advancing.

1. Acting or commanding action without delay · dominant

   Sequential imperfects portray prompt acts: in Genesis 24:20 the APB renders the woman as quickly emptying her jar and running again to the well, while in 1 Samuel 25:42 it renders Abigail as quickly arising and departing. Imperatives press for immediate action in 1 Samuel 23:27, where a messenger tells Saul to come because of a raid, and in Esther 5:5, where the king orders Haman to be brought for Esther's request.

   Genesis 24:201 Samuel 25:421 Samuel 23:27Esther 5:5Exodus 12:332 Samuel 15:14
2. Swift or hasty persons, events, and outcomes · occasional

   Niphal participles describe people as hasty in Habakkuk 1:6 and Isaiah 35:4; the APB calls the Chaldeans a “hasty nation” and addresses those “hastening of heart.” Piel forms also apply the idea to outcomes: Genesis 41:32 says that God is hastening to do the established matter, and Jeremiah 48:16 presents Moab's distress as rapidly approaching.

   Habakkuk 1:6Isaiah 35:4Genesis 41:32Jeremiah 48:16Malachi 3:5Isaiah 59:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses “quickly,” “hasten,” “hurry,” “hurried,” and “hasty,” and at times presents the urgency through the surrounding action. Because it is a whole-verse translation, those English choices show the clause's sense rather than a fixed rendering for each form.