Farmer
אִכָּרStrong’s H0406ikkar (ik-kar)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ikkar is the Hebrew word usually translated “farmers”, “farmer” and “farmers your”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.”
Meaning
- Plowman, husbandman, farmerworking the land, yet not owning any of it
How it's translated
- farmers 3
- a farmer 2
- farmers your 1
- o farmers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
- Joel 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 61:5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
- Jeremiah 14:4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
- Jeremiah 31:24And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
- Jeremiah 51:23I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
- Joel 1:11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
- Amos 5:16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Hebrew dictionary
אִכָּר ikkar · farmer
1) plowman, husbandman, farmer 1a) working the land, yet not owning any of it
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “farmer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
F'ARMER, noun
- In Great Britain, a tenant; a lessee; one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground.
- One who takes taxes, customs, excise or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent; as a farmer of the revenues.
- One who cultivates a farm; a husbandman; whether a tenant or the proprietor.
- In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the king.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.