Gift
אֶשְׁכָּרStrong’s H0814eshkar (esh-kar)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eshkar is the Hebrew word usually translated “gift” and “tribute your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.”
Meaning
- Gift
How it's translated
- a gift 1
- tribute your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֶשְׁכָּר eshkar · gift
gift
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gift” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GIFT, noun
[from give.]
A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
- The act of giving or conferring.
- The right or power of giving or bestowing.
- An offering or oblation.“If thou bring thy gift to the altar” Matthew 5:23
- A reward.“Let thy gifts be to thyself” Daniel 5:17
All definitions and other forms of “gift”
- A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment.“Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise” Deuteronomy 16:19
- Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule.
GIFT, verb transitive
To endow with any power or faculty.
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.