φερνή
dowry, bride-price
Where this word appears
Every passage where φερνή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 34:12 φερνή Multiply your demand of dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as you⌃ shall say to me, only you⌃ shall give me this damsel for a wife.
- Exodus 22:15 φερνή But if the owner be with it, he shall not make compensation: but if it be a hired thing, there shall be a compensation to him instead of his hire.
- Exodus 22:16 φερνή And if any one deceive a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her for a wife to himself.
- Joshua 16:10 φερνή And Ephraim did not destroy the Chananite who lived in Gazer; and the Chananite lived in Ephraim until this day, until Pharao the king of Egypt went up and took it, and burnt it with fire; and the Chananites, and Pherezites, and the dwellers in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharao gave them for a dowry to his daughter.
About this word
About this word
φερνή (phernḗ), “dowry, bride-price,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
