Price
מְחִירStrong’s H4242mechir (me-chir)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mechir is the Hebrew word usually translated “price”, “hire of” and “price of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.”
Meaning
- Price, hireprice · hire, reward, gain
How it's translated
- for a price 6
- and hire of 1
- price of 1
- price its 1
- by price their 1
- a price 1
- and price of 1
- for hire 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 23:18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
- 2 Samuel 24:24And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- 1 Kings 10:28And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
- 1 Kings 21:2And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
- 2 Chronicles 1:16And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
- Job 28:15It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
מְחִיר mechir · price
1) price, hire 1a) price 1b) hire, reward, gain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “price” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRICE, noun
[Latin pretium. See Praise.]
- The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market.
- The sum or equivalent given for an article sold; as the price paid for a house, an ox or a watch.
- The current value or rate paid for any species of goods; as the market price of wheat.
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies” Proverbs 31:10
All definitions and other forms of “price”
- Reward; recompense.
PRICE, verb transitive
To pay for. [Not in use.]
- To set a price on. [See Prize.]
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.