Merchandise
רְכֻלָּהStrong’s H7404rekhullah (re-khul-lah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rekhullah is the Hebrew word usually translated “trading your” and “merchandise your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.”
Meaning
- Merchandise, traffic, trade
How it's translated
- trading your 2
- merchandise your 1
- by trading your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 28:5By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
- Ezekiel 28:16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 28:18Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Hebrew dictionary
רְכֻלָּה rekhullah · merchandise
merchandise, traffic, trade
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.