Psalm 16/Notes/Lexical.v. 4.257310

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  • The word מָהָרוּ probably means acquire (lit.: "pay the bride-price for") (see The Text and Grammar of Psalm16:4). This interpretation is consistent with the only other use of מָהַר (qal) in the Bible (Exod 22:16), and it makes sense in the context—both the syntactic context (object: אַחֵר) and the semantic context, which is about idolatry, which, in turn, is often described using marital language.