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# מֹהַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4119

**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

purchase-price [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4119/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹ֫הַר: n.m. purchase-price [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4119/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. purchase-price of wife (NH id.; Arabic مَهْرٌ RSK 78 f. Proph. iv. n. 13 Nö l.c. StaGesch. i. 381 Dr Dt 22:23 and reff.; Aramaic מוֹהֲרָא, ܡܰܗܪܳܐ );—abs. מ׳ Gn 34:12 (J; ‖ מַתָּן) 1 S 18:25; cstr. מֹהַר הַבְּתוּלֹת Ex 22:16 (E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a bride-price (1); bride-price (1); to the bride-price (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.16/#tree)

אִם־מָאֵ֧ן יְמָאֵ֛ן אָבִ֖יהָ לְתִתָּ֣הּ ל֑וֹ כֶּ֣סֶף יִשְׁקֹ֔ל כְּמֹ֖הַר הַבְּתוּלֹֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* if absolutely.(refuse) he.will.refuse father her to give her to him silver he.will.weigh.out according to.the.bride-price of.(the) virgins

*JPS 1917:* If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

[Genesis 34:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.12/#tree)

הַרְבּ֨וּ עָלַ֤י מְאֹד֙ מֹ֣הַר וּמַתָּ֔ן וְאֶ֨תְּנָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר תֹּאמְר֖וּ אֵלָ֑י וּתְנוּ־לִ֥י אֶת־הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* increase on me exceedingly a.bride-price and a.gift and I.will.give.\[it\] just as you.will.say to me and give to me (et) the girl to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* 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.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4119.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4119/): 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).