Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz

In Bible versions:

Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz: NET AVS NIV TEV
Maher-shalal-hash-baz: NRSV NASB
�: NRSV

a son of Isaiah

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making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey

Hebrew

Strongs #04122: zb vx llv rhm Maher Shalal Chash Baz

= Maher-shalal-hash-baz "swift is booty, speedy is prey"

1) symbolic name given by Isaiah by the Lord's direction to Isaiah's
son; prophetic indication that Damascus and Samaria were soon to
be plundered by the king of Assyria

4122 Maher Shalal Chash Baz mah-hare' shaw-lawl' khawsh baz

from 4118 and 7998 and 2363 and 957; hasting (is he (the
enemy) to the) booty, swift (to the) prey;
Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz; the symbolical name of the son of
Isaiah:-Maher-sha-lal-bash-baz.
see HEBREW for 04118
see HEBREW for 07998
see HEBREW for 02363
see HEBREW for 0957

Maher-shalal-hash-baz [EBD]

plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14), a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a son that was to be born to him (Isa. 8:1, 3), as denoting the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army.

Maher-shalal-hash-baz [NAVE]

MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ, a symbolical name, Isa. 8:1-4.

MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ [ISBE]

MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ - ma'-her-shal'-al-hash'-baz (maher shalal chash baz, "the spoil speedeth; the prey hasteth"): Asymbolic name given to Isaiah's son to signify the sharp destruction of Rezin and Pekah by the Assyrian power (Isa 8:1,3). Compare the Greek idea of Nemesis.