Merchandise
מַעֲרָבStrong’s H4627maarav (ma-a-rav)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maarav is the Hebrew word usually translated “merchandise your”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.”
Meaning
- Merchandise, articles of exchange
How it's translated
- merchandise your 7
- for merchandise your 1
- and merchandise your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 8
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 27:13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
- Ezekiel 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
- Ezekiel 27:19Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
- Ezekiel 27:25The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
- Ezekiel 27:27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
- Ezekiel 27:33When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲרָב maarav · merchandise
merchandise, articles of exchange
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
- The objects of commerce; wares, goods, commodities, whatever is usually bought or sold in trade.
- 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.