Sale
מִמְכֶּ֫רֶתStrong’s H4466mimkeret (mim-ke-ret)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mimkeret is the Hebrew word usually translated “sale of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.”
Meaning
- Sale
How it's translated
- a sale of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מִמְכֶּ֫רֶת mimkeret · sale
sale
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sale” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SALE, noun
[The primary sense of sell, is simply to deliver or cause to pass from one person to another.]
- The act of selling; the exchange of a commodity for money of equivalent value.
- Vent; power of selling; market.
- Auction; public sale to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market. [Little used.]
- State of being venal, or of being offered to bribery; as, to set the liberty of a state to sale
All definitions and other forms of “sale”
- A wicker basket.
SALE, adjective
Sold; bought; as opposed to homemade. [Colloquial.]
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.