Ware
מַקָּחָהStrong’s H4728maqqachah (maq-qa-chah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maqqachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wares”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.”
Meaning
- Ware
How it's translated
- wares 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַקָּחָה maqqachah · ware
ware
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ware” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WARE, adjective
[We never use ware by itself. But we use it in aware, beware, and in wary. It was formerly in use.]
- Being in expectation of; provided against. 2 Timothy 4:15
- Wary; cautious.
All definitions and other forms of “ware”
WARE, verb intransitive
To take heed of. [We now use beware as a single word, though in fact it is not.]
WARE, verb transitive
preterit tense wore. [This is evidently from the root of veer. See Veer.] To cause a ship to change her course from one board to the other, by turning her stern to the wind; opposed to tacking, in which the head is turned to the wind; as, to ware ship. We wore ship and stood to the southward.
WARE, noun
plural wares. [G.] Goods; commodities; merchandise; usually in the plural; but we say, China ware earthern-ware, potters ware It was formerly used int eh singular, and may be so used still.
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.