ma.her marks an action or response as occurring without delay, including pursuit, turning aside, destruction, and pleas.

The term consistently marks promptness: acts of perishing, destroying, pursuing, turning aside, and answering or bringing compassion are presented as occurring without delay. Its use spans warnings and actions in narrative material as well as urgent requests in the Psalms, without requiring separate lexical senses.

1. Prompt action or response · dominant

   The infinitive-absolute forms occur in clauses where the APB presents perishing, turning aside, finishing, pursuit, or destruction as happening “quickly,” as in Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 9:12, Joshua 2:5, and Proverbs 25:8. The imperative forms in Psalm 143:7 and Psalm 79:8 occur in urgent appeals, where the APB asks for a swift answer and for compassions to come promptly.

   Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 9:12Joshua 2:5Proverbs 25:8Psalm 143:7Psalm 79:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “quickly,” and uses “soon” in Judges 2:17. In Psalm 102:3 and Psalm 69:18, the supplied translation does not visibly preserve a corresponding speed expression, so its rendering of the individual token cannot be isolated from the whole-verse translation.