Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4119
מֹהַר
moharmo'-har
brideprice
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: môhar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4119is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4119
a price (for a wife)
The King James renders it: dowry.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mohar is rendered "brideprice". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:12Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
Genesis 34:12מֹ֣הַר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a bride price1
- according to bride-price of1
- in bride-price1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּמֹ֔הַר1
- כְּמֹ֖הַר1
- מֹ֣הַר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Genesis
one use
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- מֹ֣הַרmoharnoun · masculine singulartagged: a bride price
Exodus
one use
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
- כְּמֹ֖הַרkemoharpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: according to bride-price of
1 Samuel
one use
Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
- בְּמֹ֔הַרbemoharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in bride-price
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.