mo.har is the payment or demanded price connected with taking a woman as a wife.

Across the supplied verses, the term denotes a payment or price required in connection with taking a woman as a wife: it may be paid after seduction, requested in marriage negotiations, or specified by a king as an unusual demand.

1. Marriage-related payment or demanded price · dominant

   In Exodus 22:16, the construct singular occurs in the requirement that a man pay in order for the woman to become his wife. In Genesis 34:12, the absolute singular is something the speaker asks to be made very great while requesting the maiden as a wife; in 1 Samuel 18:25, Saul specifies an extraordinary payment while arranging David's marriage.

   Exodus 22:16Genesis 34:121 Samuel 18:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "brideprice" in Exodus 22:16 and "bride price" in Genesis 34:12 and 1 Samuel 18:25. These renderings confirm the marriage-payment setting of the clauses rather than establish finer distinctions.