Precious
יַקִּירStrong’s H3357yaqqir (yaq-qir)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yaqqir is the Hebrew word usually translated “dear”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.”
Meaning
- Rare, very precious, honour, dear
How it's translated
- dear 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יַקִּיר yaqqir · precious
rare, very precious, honour, dear Aramaic equivalent: yaq.qir (יַקִּיר "honorable" H3358)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “precious” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRE'CIOUS, adjective
[Latin pretiosus, from pretium, price. See Praise.]
- Of great price; costly; as a precious stone.
- Of great value or worth; very valuable.“She is more precious than rubies” Proverbs 3:15
- Highly valued; much esteemed.“The word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision” 1 Samuel 3:1
- Worthless; in irony and contempt.
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.