Hebrew

Acquaintance

מַכָּרStrong’s H4378

makkar (mak-kar)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Makkar is the Hebrew word usually translated “acquaintance his” and “acquaintances your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.”

2 Kings 12:5 KJV

Meaning

Acquaintance, friend

How it's translated

acquaintance his 1
acquaintances your 1

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

Where it's used most

2 Kings 2

1 book in all.

Related words

To get acquainted (historeō)

Explore in Scripture

2 Kings 12:7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

Hebrew dictionary

מַכָּר makkar · acquaintance

acquaintance, friend

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

ACQUAI'NTANCE, noun

Familiar knowledge; a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate or more than slight or superficial knowledge; as, I know the man, but have no acquaintance with him.
A person or persons well known; usually persons we have been accustomed to see and converse with; sometimes, persons more slightly known.“Lover and friend has thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness” Psalms 88:18“My acquaintance are estranged from me” Job 19:13

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.