Cost
נִפְקָאStrong’s H5313niphqa (niph-qa)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Niphqa is the Aramaic word usually translated “expense the”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:”
Meaning
- Outlay, expense
How it's translated
- and expense the 1
- expense the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
נִפְקָא niphqa · cost
outlay, expense
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cost” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COST, noun
[See the Verb.]
- The price, value or equivalent of a thing purchased; the amount in value paid, charge or engaged to be paid for any thing bought or taken in barter.
- Expense; amount in value expended or to be expended; charge; that which is given or to be given for another thing.“I will not offer burnt offerings without cost” 1 Chronicles 21:24“Have we eaten at all at the kings cost?” 2 Samuel 19:42
- In law, the sum fixed by law or allowed by the court for charges of a suit awarded against the party losing, in favor of the party prevailing, etc.
- Loss or expense of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
All definitions and other forms of “cost”
- Sumptuousness; great expense.
COST, verb transitive
[The noun cost coincides in most of these languages with coast and Latin Costa, a rib, the exterior part. The primary sense of the verb is, to throw or send out, to cast, as we say, to lay out. I call this a transitive verb. In the phrase, a hat costs six dollars, the sense is, it expends, lays out, or causes to be laid out six dollars.]
- To require to be given or expend in barter or purchase; to be bought for; as, this book cost a dollar; the army and navy cost four millions a year.
- To require to be laid out, given, bestowed or employed; as, Johnsons Dictionary cost him seven years labor.
- To require to be borne or suffered.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.