מְחִיר
mᵉchîyr · H4242 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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price, pay
The amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something
ExamplesDeuteronomy 23:18 “You shall not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the money for a dog into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vowed offering, because both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
2 Samuel 24:24 However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price; for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Kings 10:28 Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s merchants acquired them from Kue for a price.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- זֶהthis 1
- כֶּלֶבdog 1
- שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 1
- הּher 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַתּוּדhe-goat 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
10 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 17
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶּסֶףsilver 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀντάλλαγμα antállagma · G465 · something given in exchange
- Greek ἀντάλλαγμα emphasizes the exchange-value or ransom aspect of price (something given in return), while Hebrew מְחִיר encompasses a broader commercial semantic range including hire, worth, and general transactional price beyond the exchange-equivalence focus.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Objects001
- מְחִיר denotes the price or worth paid for a purchased object, as in David's purchase of Araunah's threshing floor "for a price" (2 Samuel 24:24) and Solomon's horses acquired "for a price" (1 Kings 10:28).
- Names of People003001007
- The fact-packet data also assigns the Names of People domain, shared with its proper-noun homograph Mehir (מְחִיר (Mᵉchîyr, H4243)), a descendant of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:11).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4242. mechir I. מְחִיר noun masculine price, hire (as that which is placed in front of…
I. מְחִיר noun masculine price, hire (as that which is placed in front of one, presented, offered; Assyrian ma—îru, price; ma—irânu, buyer, DlHWB 404, Prol.94); — ׳מ absolute Mic 3:11 Mic 3:9t.; construct Deu 23:19 Deu 23:2t.; suffix מְחִירָהּ Job 28:15; plural suffix מְחִירֵיהֶם Psa 44:13; —
1 price, often בִּמְחִיר for a price; in trade 2Sa 24:24; 1Ki 10:28; 2Ch 1:16; compare Lam 5:4 (|| כֶּסֶף), also (no בְּ) 1Ki 21:2 and ׳מ עַתּוּדִים שָׂדֶה Pro 27:26; of wisdom Job 28:15 (|| כֶּסֶף סְגוֺר) compare Pro 17:16 (no בְּ); figurative מ וּבְלוֺא ׳בְּלוֺאבֶֿסֶף Isa 55:1 in purchase of blessings from ׳י; of price of people, figurative Psa 44:13, compare Jer 15:13.
2 hire, ׳מ כֶּלֶב (i.e. of male prostitute) Deu 23:19 (|| זוֺנָה אֶתְנַן) see Di Dr; of venal priests Mic 3:11 (|| שֹׁחַד); = reward, gain, denied of Cyrus Isa 45:13 (|| id.); affirmed of Ant. Epiph. Dan 11:39.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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