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To trade

סָחַרStrong’s H5503

sachar (sa-char)

Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sachar is the Hebrew word usually translated “traders of”, “trader your” and “traders”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”
Genesis 23:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. To go around, go about, travel about in, go about in trade(Qal) · (Pilpel) to palpitate
How it's translated
  • traders of 3
  • trader your 3
  • traders 2
  • traders your 2
  • to the trader 1
  • and go about in it 1
  • and let them go about in 1
  • you will go about in 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 6
  • Genesis 5
  • Isaiah 3
  • 2 Chronicles 2
  • 1 Kings 1
  • Psalms 1

8 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 20 verses, by book
1 Kings 1
10:28
2 Chronicles 2
1:169:14
Psalms 1
38:10
Proverbs 1
31:14
Jeremiah 1
14:18
Hebrew dictionary

סָחַר sachar · to trade

1) to go around, go about, travel about in, go about in trade 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go about to and fro (in business) 1a2) trader, trafficker (participle) 1b) (Pilpel) to palpitate

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

TRADE, noun

[Latin tracto, to handle, use, treat.]

  1. The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money.
  2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture.
  3. Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade
  4. Instruments of any occupation.
All definitions and other forms of “trade”
  1. Employment not manual; habitual exercise.
  2. Custom; habit; standing practice.
  3. Men engaged in the same occupation.

TRADE, verb intransitive

To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffic; to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.

  1. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance.
  2. To act merely for money.
  3. To have a trade wind.

TRADE, verb transitive

To sell or exchange in commerce.

  1. “They traded the persons of men” Ezekiel 27:13

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.