Word

מֶכֶר

meker · H4377 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

wares, merchandise

Goods and products that are intended for trade and commerce

Examples
Nehemiah 13:16 Also people of Tyre were living there who imported fish and all kinds of merchandise, and sold them to the sons of Judah on the Sabbath, even in Jerusalem.
price, value

The value attributed to a certain person or object

Examples
Numbers 20:19 Again, the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the road, and if I and my livestock do drink any of your water, then I will pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet, nothing more.”
Proverbs 31:10 An excellent wife, who can find her? For her worth is far above jewels.

How it’s used In 3 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הּher 1
הֶםtheir 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רָחוֹקfar 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Objects001: מֶכֶר names merchandise or goods for sale, concrete traded objects, as in the report of Tyrian merchants selling "all kinds of merchandise" in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 13:16).
Good002001001031: The word also denotes the worth or value of something excellent, as in the virtuous wife whose "worth is far above jewels" (Proverbs 31:10).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָכַר mâkar · H4376 · to sell, to sell oneself · 80×מִמְכָּר mimkâr · H4465 · sale, what is sold, merchandise · 10×מֶכֶרmeker · H4377מִמְכֶּרֶת mimkereth · H4466 · sale · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4377. meker מֶ֫כֶר noun masculinePro 31:10 merchandise, value; — ׳מ absolute Neh 13:16;…

H4377. meker
מֶ֫כֶר noun masculinePro 31:10 merchandise, value; — ׳מ absolute Neh 13:16; מִכְרָהּ Pro 31:10; מִכְרָם Num 20:19; probably also מִמְכָּרָיו (read מִמְּכָרָיו) Deu 18:8, see Di Dr; —
1 merchandise Neh 13:16; value, price, of water Num 20:19 (JE), compare Deu 18:8 (see above); of capable woman Pro 31:10.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Objects1 occurrence Good2 occurrences

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