מֹהַרmôhar
purchase-price, of wife (Deuteronomy 22:23; Genesis 34:12; 1 Samuel 18:25; Exodus 22:16)
Pronunciation: mo'-har · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4119
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 34:12 No matter what dowry or gift you demand, I will gladly pay it—just give me the girl as my wife.”
- Exodus 22:17 But if her father refuses to let him marry her, the man must still pay him an amount equal to the bride price of a virgin.
- 1 Samuel 18:25 he told them, “Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.” But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).