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# dowry

«dowry» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **money, goods or land that a bride's family gave to her…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dowry, dowries)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) money, goods or land that a bride's family gave to her when she married [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, money a man pays to the father of a bride (the "bride-price"), which a seducer must pay for a girl he has wronged. Interpretation: Later Jewish law turned this into the ketubah, the marriage contract that protects the wife. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales a gift that goes with a princess or a girl when she is married

### examples

- If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. (Torah EXO.22.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#x1)
- Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.' (Torah GEN.34.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#x2)
- And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. (Torah EXO.22.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#x3)
- The king gave his daughter a rich dowry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#x4)
- Her father promised a dowry of gold and cows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#x5)
- In the old story the poor girl had no dowry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths; a dowry is an amount of money, so in a sharing problem it is the total to be divided, not a count

### In the corpora

- [(22-16) If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.632/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dowry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dowry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.