מָהַהּmâhahh
linger, tarry
Pronunciation: maw-hah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4102
Meanings
Hithpalpel: linger, tarry, wait (Psalms 119:60; Judges 19:8; Genesis 43:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful.
- Genesis 43:10 If we hadn’t wasted all this time, we could have gone and returned twice by now.”
- Exodus 12:39 For bread they baked flat cakes from the dough without yeast they had brought from Egypt. It was made without yeast because the people were driven out of Egypt in such a hurry that they had no time to prepare the bread or other food.
- Judges 3:26 While the servants were waiting, Ehud escaped, passing the stone idols on his way to Seirah.
- Judges 19:8 On the morning of the fifth day he was up early again, ready to leave, and again the woman’s father said, “Have something to eat; then you can leave later this afternoon.” So they had another day of feasting.
- 2 Samuel 15:28 I will stop at the shallows of the Jordan River and wait there for a report from you.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).