Words the Bible translates as marry
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- laqaḥלָקַחto take: to lay hold of someone or something and bring it into your hand, your possession, or your keeping
- gameōγαμέωto marry: to enter into marriage, to take someone as one's spouse
- ba'alבָּעַלto become someone's lord and owner: to take a woman as one's wife (and so be her husband), or to hold people under one's rule
- epigambreuōἐπιγαμβρεύωto marrynot studied yet
- gamiskō, gamizōγαμίσκω, γαμίζωto give in marriage: to hand a woman over to a husband, the act of her family rather than of the couple
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