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# מָהַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4117

**acquire by paying purchase-price** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

acquire by paying purchase-price [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4117/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָהַר²: vb. denom. acquire by paying purchase-price [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4117/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. acquire by paying purchase-price (Arabic مَهَرَ give a dowry, marry for a مَهْرٌ; cf. GerberVerb. denom. 12 Buhl SS);— Pf. 3 pl. מָהָ֑רוּ ψ 16:4 usually obtain another in exchange (or, by paying a price, cf. Che), but text dub.; Impf. 3 ms. sf. + Inf. abs. מָהֹר יִמְהָרֶנָּה לוֹ לְאִשָּׁה Ex 22:15 (E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: certainly (pay the bride-price) (1); he (1); they have acquired (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 22:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.15/#tree)

וְכִֽי־יְפַתֶּ֣ה אִ֗ישׁ בְּתוּלָ֛ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־אֹרָ֖שָׂה וְשָׁכַ֣ב עִמָּ֑הּ מָהֹ֛ר יִמְהָרֶ֥נָּה לּ֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.seduce a.man a.virgin who not she.was.betrothed and he.will.lie with her certainly.(pay.the.bride-price) he will.pay.the.bride-price.for.her for himself to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

[Psalms 16:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.4/#tree)

יִרְבּ֥וּ עַצְּבוֹתָם֮ אַחֵ֪ר מָ֫הָ֥רוּ בַּל־אַסִּ֣יךְ נִסְכֵּיהֶ֣ם מִדָּ֑ם וּֽבַל־אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶת־שְׁ֝מוֹתָ֗ם עַל־שְׂפָתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* they.will.increase sorrows their another.\[god\] they.have.acquired not I.will.pour.out offerings their.drink from blood and not I.will.take (et) names their on lips my

*JPS 1917:* Let the idols of them be multiplied that make suit unto another; their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take their names upon my lips.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4117.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4117/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).