סַחַר
çachar · H5504 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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gain, revenue
Income resulting from one's trade
ExamplesProverbs 3:14 For her profit is better than the profit of silver, And her produce better than gold.
Proverbs 31:18 She senses that her profit is good; Her lamp does not go out at night.
Isaiah 23:3 And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations.
How it’s used In 5 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
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- הּher 4
- גּוֹיnation, people 1
- כּוּשׁCush 1
- כֶּסֶףsilver 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
- עָבַרto pass 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- טָעַםto taste, to eat 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוֹבgood 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 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 2 words
- רְכֻלָּה rᵉkullâh · H7404 · trading, trade, buying and selling
- Hebrew רְכֻלָּה denotes merchandise or goods for trade, used in contexts similar to סַחַר (e.g., Ezek 26:12, 28:16) and appears interchangeable in commercial vocabulary, though it may emphasize the traveling merchant's wares specifically.
- מַעֲרָב maʻărâb · H4627 · wares, merchandise, west
- Hebrew מַעֲרָב refers to articles of trade or merchandise (from the root ערב 'to exchange'), appearing in Ezekiel's commercial oracles (27:9, 27, 33) in parallel contexts with סַחַר and denoting goods for exchange.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐμπορία emporía · G1711 · to be in business, to engage in a business, to trade
- Greek ἐμπορία (abstract noun for trade/commerce) closely parallels the semantic range of Hebrew סַחַר as 'merchandise' or 'trade activity,' appearing in LXX renderings of similar commercial vocabulary.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Possess002003002019
- מִסְחָר describes merchandise or trade profit, illustrated at Proverbs 3:14 ("her profit is better than the profit of silver") and Proverbs 31:18 ("she senses that her profit is good").
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5504. sachar [סַ֫חַר] noun masculinePro 3:14 traffic, gain; — construct סְחַר Isa 23:3…
[סַ֫חַר] noun masculinePro 3:14 traffic, gain; — construct סְחַר Isa 23:3 Isa 23:2t.; suffix סַחְרָהּ Pro 3:14 Pro 3:3t.; — traffic, i.e. gain from traffic, Isa 23:3, Isa 23:18 (+ אֶתְנַנָּהּ), Isa 23:18; Isa 45:14; Pro 3:14; Pro 31:18.
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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