Strong H4119מֹ֫הַר
brideprice
- Transliteration
- môhar
- Pronunciation
- mo'-har
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H4117; a price (for a wife): - dowry.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: brideprice
Exact lexical definition: purchase-price
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: מֹ֫הַר n.m . purchase-price of wife
In the Bible
Strong H4119 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- dowry3
First verses
- Genesis 34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
- Exodus 22:17If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
- 1 Samuel 18:25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.