Definition

to bargain (for a wife), i.e. to wed

Etymology

a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as H4116 (מָהַר) through the idea of readiness in assent);

Word family

• מָהַר mâhar

How the KJV renders it

• endow
• surely

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.