H4119: מֹהַר
môhar · pronounced mo'-har · “brideprice”
Definition
a price (for a wife)
KJV translates it as: dowry.
Word origin: from H4117 (מָהַר);
Extended definition
purchase price for wife, wedding money
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4119 is translated
- a bride price ×1
- the bride-price of ×1
- bride-price ×1
Bible verses with H4119 (môhar)
Môhar appears in 3 verses.
- Genesis 34:12
Ask 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 22:17
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
- 1 Samuel 18:25
And 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.