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Merchandise

מֶ֫כֶרStrong’s H4377

mekher (me-kher)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mekher is the Hebrew word usually translated “price their”, “merchandise” and “price her”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.”
Numbers 20:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Merchandise, value, price
How it's translated
  • price their 1
  • merchandise 1
  • price her 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 1
  • Nehemiah 1
  • Proverbs 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מֶ֫כֶר mekher · merchandise

merchandise, value, price

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “merchandise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MER'CHANDISE, noun

  1. The objects of commerce; wares, goods, commodities, whatever is usually bought or sold in trade.
  2. Trade; traffick; commerce.
All definitions and other forms of “merchandise”

    MER'CHANDISE, verb intransitive

    To trade; to carry on commerce.

      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.