מַכָּר
makkâr · H4378 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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acquaintance
Exact meaning unknown: person with whom one is acquainted
Examples2 Kings 12:5 the priests are to take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair damage to the house wherever any damage is found.”
2 Kings 12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, “Why do you not repair damage to the house? Now then, you are not to take any more money from your acquaintances, but give it up for the damage to the house.”
How it’s used In 1 role
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
- הוּhis 1
- כֶםyour 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- רֵעֶה rêʻeh · H7463 · friend
- Both lexemes denote persons in a social relationship to the speaker/subject—"acquaintance" and "friend" are genuine same-language near synonyms describing degrees of personal familiarity.
- עָמִית ʻâmîyth · H5997 · neighbor, fellow-citizen
- Both words denote persons with whom one has a social connection or proximity, as relational terms: an acquaintance corresponds in social proximity to a fellow or neighbor.
- מֵרֵעַ mêrêaʻ · H4828 · friend, companion
- Both words denote persons with whom one has a friendly social relationship: 'acquaintance' and 'companion, friend' are close in the area of social relationship.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Friends001001003003
- מַכָּר names an acquaintance or friend, as in Job's lament that "my acquaintances have completely forgotten me" (Job 19:14) and 2 Kings 10:11's mention of Ahab's acquaintances.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4378. makkar [מַכָּר] noun masculine acquaintance, friend (dubious, compare Benzon the…
[מַכָּר] noun masculine acquaintance, friend (dubious, compare Benzon the passage); — suffix מַכָּרוֺ 2Ki 12:6; plural suffix מַכָּרֵיכֶם v.2Ki 12:8.
II. נכר (√ of following, possibly = I. נכר, whence the foreign, strange, as that which is intently regarded, so Thes, but precarious; compare Assyrian nakâru, rebel, Pa`el change, nakiru, and nakaru, enemy, nukurtu, enmity, etc.; ** be ignorant of, Qor 11:73; II. change, alter, so as not to be known, disguise Qor 27:41; IV=I, also deny, Qor 16:85 repudiate. Arabic in sense be bad, evil; II. change, alter a thing; Sabean נכר II. reject, injure, etc., נכרם injury SabDenkm76 CISiv. 81. 9; 29. 5; Minaean נכר alter HomSüdarab. Chrest. 128; Syriac reject, alienus, etc.; ** reject is rare (twice), and PS properly alienavit each time. נוּכְרַי ᵑ7 strange, foreign).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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