Word

מֹהַר

môhar · H4119 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

bride-price

A payment made to the family of the bride by the groom

Examples
Genesis 34:12 “Demand of me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give whatever you tell me; but give me the girl in marriage.”
Exodus 22:17 “If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25 Saul then said, “This is what you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” But Saul plotted to have David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בְּתוּלָהvirgin, young woman 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רָבָהto increase 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as 2
בin/on/with 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

שִׁלּוּחַ shillûwach · H7964 · sending away, parting gift: Marriage gift or present given at the time of betrothal, closely related to the concept of bride-price though not identical in all nuances

Semantic domains 1 entry

Objects001: מֹהַר denotes a dowry or bride-price, a payment made to secure a bride, as in Genesis 34:12's "demand of me ever so much bridal payment," placing it among terms for a transacted item of value.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָהַר mâhar · H4117 · to act quickly, to hasten, to be fearful · 3×מֹהַרmôhar · H4119

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4119. mohar מֹ֫הַר noun masculine purchase-price of wife ( Late Hebrew id.; Arabic RSK…

H4119. mohar
מֹ֫הַר noun masculine purchase-price of wife
( Late Hebrew id.; Arabic RSK 78 f; RSProph. iv. n. 13 Nöl.c. StaGeschichte. i. 381 DrDeu 22:23 and references; Aramaic מוֺהֲרָא, ); — absolute ׳מ Gen 34:12 (J; || מַתָּן) 1Sa 18:25; construct הַבְּתוּלֹת מֹהַר Exo 22:16 (E).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Objects3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0