“dowry” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word dowry appears 6 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 6 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 30:20 And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.
- Genesis 34:12 Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
- Exodus 22:17 If the maid’s father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.
- 1 Kings 18:25 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.
- 3 Kings 9:16 Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it for a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
- 2 Machabees 1:14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry.