Preciousness
יְקָרStrong’s H3366yeqar (ye-qar)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “honor his”, “honor” and “honor of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Price, value, preciousness, honour, splendour, pomppreciousness · price · honour, esteem
How it's translated
- in honor his 5
- honor 3
- honor of 1
- and honor 1
- precious thing 1
- in honor 1
- with honor 1
- preciousness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 8
- Psalms 2
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 1:4When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
- Esther 1:20And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
- Esther 6:3And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
- Esther 6:6So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
- Esther 6:7And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
- Esther 6:9And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Hebrew dictionary
יְקָר yeqar · preciousness
1) price, value, preciousness, honour, splendour, pomp 1a) preciousness 1b) price 1c) honour, esteem Aramaic equivalent: ye.qar (יְקָר "honor" H3367)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “preciousness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRE'CIOUSNESS, noun
Valuableness; great value; high price.
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.