מָהַר mâhar — to bargain (for a wife), i.e. to wed
Translated in the KJV as endow, × surely.
a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as H4116 through the idea of readiness in assent); to bargain (for a wife), i.e. to wed.
mâhar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
מָהֹ֛ר Exod 22:15 Infinitive absolute
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›