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Lexicon :: Strong's H4376 - māḵar

Aa
מָכַר
Transliteration
māḵar
Pronunciation
maw-kar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1194

Strong’s Definitions

מָכַר mâkar, maw-kar'; a primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender):—× at all, sell (away, -er, self).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x

The KJV translates Strong's H4376 in the following manner: sell (75x), seller (4x), at all (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x
The KJV translates Strong's H4376 in the following manner: sell (75x), seller (4x), at all (1x).
  1. to sell

    1. (Qal)

      1. to sell

      2. seller (participle)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be sold

      2. to sell oneself

      3. to be given over to death

    3. (Hithpael) to sell oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָכַר mâkar, maw-kar'; a primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender):—× at all, sell (away, -er, self).
STRONGS H4376: Abbreviations
מָכַר verb sell (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician מכר; Zinjirli מכרו price, DHMSendsch. 60; Aramaic bdb056901, מְכַר marry (i.e. buy as a wife); compare Assyrian makkûru, namkur(r)u, nakkuru, possession, property, DlHWB 408); —
Qal Perfect מ׳ Leviticus 27:20 + 2 times; suffix מְכָרוֺ Exodus 21:37 + 2 times; 1st person singular מָכַרְתִּי Isaiah 50:1 + 2 times, etc.; Imperfect יִמְכֹּר Exodus 21:7 +, etc.; Imperative מִכְרָ֫ה Genesis 25:31; feminine singular מִכְרִי 2 Kings 4:7; Infinitive absolute מָכֹר Deuteronomy 14:21; Deuteronomy 21:14; construct מְכוֺר Nehemiah 10:32; suffix מָכְרָהּ Exodus 21:8; מִכְרָם Amos 2:6; Nehemiah 13:15 (compare BaNB 104); Participle מֹכֵר (מוֺכֵר) Leviticus 25:16 + 3 times; feminine מֹכֶרֶת Nahum 3:4, etc.; — sell (with בְּ pret. Amos 2:6; Joel 4:3 [Joel 3:3]; Psalm 44:13) followed by accusative e.g. land Genesis 47:20, 22 (J), Leviticus 25:14 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Leviticus 25:25 (H; followed by מֵאֲחֻזָּתוֺ) compare Ezekiel 48:14 (followed by מִן partitive), Leviticus 25:15 (no object expressed), so Leviticus 25:27; Leviticus 27:20 (H), Ruth 4:3; house Leviticus 25:29 (H); beast Exodus 21:35; Exodus 21:37 (E); flesh Deuteronomy 14:21 (no object); crop Leviticus 25:16 (H); food Nehemiah 10:32; Nehemiah 13:15, 16, compare Nehemiah 13:20 (followed by מִמְכָר); oil 2 Kings 4:7; linen Proverbs 31:24; birthright Genesis 25:31, 33 (J); most often human beings, e.g. as slaves Genesis 37:27, 28, 36; Genesis 45:4, 5 (all J E), Exodus 21:16 (E), Deuteronomy 21:14 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 24:7, compare Amos 2:6; Nehemiah 5:8; Zechariah 11:5; Joel 4:3 [Joel 3:3]; Joel 4:6 [Joel 3:6]; Joel 4:7 [Joel 3:7]; Joel 4:8 [Joel 3:8] (twice in verse); especially daughters Exodus 21:7, 8 (E); in marriage Genesis 31:15 (E); Participle = seller Isaiah 24:2; Ezekiel 7:12, 13; figurative, object truth Proverbs 23:23; of Nineveh, selling nations גּוֺיִם Nahum 3:4; especially י׳ selling his people (to enemies), i.e. giving it entirely into their power: Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalm 44:13; Isaiah 50:1, also (בְּיַד מ׳) Judges 2:14; Judges 3:8; Judges 4:2; Judges 10:7; 1 Samuel 12:9; compare Judges 4:9 (Sisera to woman); also Ezekiel 30:12 (strike out Co after B and others).
Niph. Perfect נִמְכַּר Leviticus 25:48 + 5 times, etc.; Imperfect יִמָּכֵר Leviticus 25:34 + 3 times, etc.; Infinitive הִמָּֽכְרוֺ Leviticus 25:50; Participle plural נִמְכָּרִים Nehemiah 5:8; — be sold, of land Leviticus 25:23, 34; beast Leviticus 27:27; compare Leviticus 27:28 (all P); of human beings as slaves Exodus 22:2 for (בְּ) theft (E), Leviticus 25:42 (P), Psalm 105:17; Esther 7:4; sell oneself Leviticus 25:39, 47, 48, 50 (PH), Deuteronomy 15:12; Jeremiah 34:14; Nehemiah 5:8 (twice in verse); figurative of Israel, sold by י׳, Isaiah 50:1 for (בְּ) their sins, Isaiah 52:3; compare Esther 7:4 = given over to death.
Hithp. Perfect הִתְמַכֵּר 1 Kings 21:25; וְהִתְמַכַּרְתֶּם consecutive Deuteronomy 28:68; וַיִּתְמַכְּרוּ 2 Kings 17:17; Infinitive הִתְמַכֶּרְךָ 1 Kings 21:20; sell oneself as slave Deuteronomy 28:68; figurative 1 Kings 21:20, 25; 2 Kings 17:17, all followed by לַעֲשׂוֺת הָרַע.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:31; 25:31; 25:33; 31:15; 37:27; 37:28; 37:36; 45:4; 45:5; 47:20; 47:22

Exodus

21:7; 21:7; 21:8; 21:8; 21:16; 21:35; 22:2

Leviticus

25:14; 25:15; 25:16; 25:16; 25:23; 25:25; 25:27; 25:29; 25:34; 25:34; 25:39; 25:42; 25:47; 25:48; 25:48; 25:50; 25:50; 27:20; 27:20; 27:27; 27:28

Deuteronomy

14:21; 14:21; 15:12; 21:14; 21:14; 24:7; 28:68; 28:68; 32:30

Judges

2:14; 3:8; 4:2; 4:9; 10:7

Ruth

4:3

1 Samuel

12:9

1 Kings

21:20; 21:20; 21:25; 21:25

2 Kings

4:7; 4:7; 17:17; 17:17

Nehemiah

5:8; 5:8; 5:8; 10:32; 10:32; 13:15; 13:15; 13:16; 13:20

Esther

7:4; 7:4

Psalms

44:13; 44:13; 105:17

Proverbs

23:23; 31:24

Isaiah

24:2; 50:1; 50:1; 50:1; 52:3

Jeremiah

34:14

Ezekiel

7:12; 7:13; 30:12; 48:14

Joel

3:3; 3:3; 3:6; 3:7; 3:8

Amos

2:6; 2:6; 2:6

Nahum

3:4; 3:4

Zechariah

11:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4376 matches the Hebrew מָכַר (māḵar),
which occurs 80 times in 74 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:31–Neh 5:8)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - But Jacob H3290 said H559, “[fn]First H3117 sell H4376 me your birthright H1062.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob H3290 said H559, “[fn]First H3117 swear H7650 to me”; so he swore H7650 an oath to him, and sold H4376 his birthright H1062 to Jacob H3290.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - “Are we not regarded H2803 by him as foreigners H5237? For he has sold H4376 us, and has also H1571 [fn]entirely H398 consumed H398 our [fn]purchase H3701 price H3701.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - “Come H1980, and let’s sell H4376 him to the Ishmaelites H3459 and not lay H1961 our hands H3027 on him, for he is our brother H251, our own flesh H1320.” And his brothers H251 listened H8085 to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - Then some H376 Midianite H4084 traders H5503 passed H5674 by H5674, so they pulled H4900 him out H4900 and lifted H5927 Joseph H3130 out of the pit H953, and sold H4376 [fn]him to the Ishmaelites H3459 for [fn]twenty H6242 shekels of silver H3701. So they brought H935 Joseph H3130 into Egypt H4714.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - Meanwhile, the [fn]Midianites H4084 sold H4376 him in Egypt H4714 to Potiphar H6318, Pharaoh’s H6547 officer H5631, the captain H8269 of the bodyguard H2876.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 -

Then Joseph H3130 said H559 to his brothers H251, “Please H4994 come H5066 [fn]closer H5066 to me.” And they came H5066 [fn]closer H5066. And he said H559, “I am your brother H251 Joseph H3130, whom H834 you sold H4376 to Egypt H4714.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5 - “Now H6258 do not be grieved H6087 or angry H2734 [fn]with yourselves H5869 because H3588 you sold H4376 me here H2008, for God H430 sent H7971 me ahead H6440 of you [fn]to save H4241 lives H4241.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 -

So Joseph H3130 bought H7069 all H3605 the land H127 of Egypt H4714 for Pharaoh H6547, for [fn]every H376 Egyptian H4714 sold H4376 his field H7704, because H3588 the famine H7458 was severe H2388 upon them. So the land H776 became H1961 Pharaoh’s H6547.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only H7534 the land H127 of the priests H3548 he did not buy H7069, because H3588 the priests H3548 had an allotment H2706 from Pharaoh H6547, and they [fn]lived H398 off H398 the allotment H2706 which H834 Pharaoh H6547 gave H5414 them. Therefore H5921 H3651, they did not sell H4376 their land H127.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 -

“Now if H3588 a man H376 sells H4376 his daughter H1323 as a female H519 slave H519, she is not to [fn]go H3318 free H3318 as the male H5650 slaves H5650 [fn]do H3318.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - “If H518 she is [fn]displeasing H7451 in the eyes H5869 of her master H113 [fn]who H834 designated H3259 her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed H6299. He does not have H4910 authority H4910 to sell H4376 her to a foreign H5237 people H5971, because of his [fn]unfairness H898 to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 -

“Now one who [fn]kidnaps H1589 someone H376, whether he sells H4376 him or he is found H4672 in his [fn]possession H3027, shall certainly H4191 be put H4191 to H4191 death H4191.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 -

“And if H3588 someone’s H376 ox H7794 injures H5062 another’s H7453 ox H7794 so that it dies H4191, then they shall sell H4376 the live H2416 ox H7794 and divide H2673 its proceeds H3701 equally; and they shall also H1571 divide H2673 the dead H4191 ox.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 -

[fn]If H3588 someone H376 steals H1589 an ox H7794 or H176 a sheep H7716 and slaughters H2873 it or H176 sells H4376 it, he shall pay H7999 five H2568 oxen H1241 for the ox H7794 and four H702 sheep H6629 for the sheep H7716

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - “If H518 the sun H8121 has risen H2224 on him, there will be guilt H1818 for H1818 bloodshed H1818 on his account—A thief shall certainly H7999 make H7999 restitution H7999; if H518 he owns nothing H369, then he shall be sold H4376 for his theft H1591.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - ‘Furthermore, if H3588 you make H4376 a sale H4465 to your friend H5997, or H176 buy H7069 from your friend’s H5997 hand H3027, you shall not [fn]wrong H3238 one H376 another H251.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - ‘Corresponding to the number H4557 of years H8141 after H310 the jubilee H3104, you shall buy H7069 from your friend H5997; he is to sell H4376 to you according to the number H4557 of years H8141 of crops H8393.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - ‘In proportion H6310 to [fn]a greater H7230 number H7230 of years H8141 you shall increase H7235 its price H4736, and in proportion H6310 to [fn]fewer H4591 years H8141 you shall decrease H4591 its price H4736, because it is the number H4557 of crops H8393 that he is selling H4376 to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 -

‘The land H776, moreover, shall not be sold H4376 permanently H6783, because H3588 the land H776 is Mine; for you are only strangers H1616 and residents H8453 with Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 -

‘If H3588 a fellow H251 countryman H251 of yours becomes H4134 so poor H4134 that he sells H4376 part of his property H272, then his closest H7138 [fn]redeemer H1350 is to come H935 and buy H1350 back H1350 what H4465 his relative H251 has sold H4465.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - then he shall calculate H2803 the years H8141 since its sale H4465 and refund H7725 the balance H5736 to the man H376 to whom H834 he sold H4376 it, and so return H7725 to his property H272.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 -

‘Likewise, if H3588 a man H376 sells H4376 a dwelling H4186 house H1004 in a walled H2346 city H5892, then his redemption H1353 right H1353 remains H1961 valid until H5704 a full H8552 year H8141 after H4480 its sale H4465; his right H1353 of H1353 redemption H1353 lasts H1961 a full H3117 year H3117.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - ‘But pasture H4054 fields H7704 of their cities H5892 shall not be sold H4376, for that is their permanent H5769 possession H272.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 -

‘Now if H3588 a countryman H251 of yours becomes H4134 so poor H4134 with H5973 regard H5973 to H5973 you that he sells H4376 himself to you, you shall not subject H5647 him to a slave’s H5650 service H5656.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - ‘For they are My servants H5650 whom H834 I brought H3318 out H3318 from the land H776 of Egypt H4714; they are not to be sold H4376 in a slave H5650 sale H4466.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 -

‘Now if H3588 the [fn]means H3027 of a stranger H1616 or of a foreign H8453 resident H8453 with you becomes H5381 sufficient H5381, and a countryman H251 of yours becomes H4134 poor H4134 in H5973 relation H5973 to H5973 him and sells H4376 himself to a stranger H1616 who H8453 is H8453 residing H8453 with you, or H176 to the descendants H6133 of a stranger’s H1616 family H4940,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48 - then he shall have H1961 redemption H1353 right H1353 after H310 he has been sold H4376. One H259 of his brothers H251 may redeem H1350 him,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘He then, with his purchaser H7069, shall calculate H2803 from the year H8141 when he sold H4376 himself to him up to the year H8141 of jubilee H3104; and the price H3701 of his sale H4465 shall correspond H1961 to the number H4557 of years H8141 calculated. It is like the days H3117 of a hired H7916 worker H7916 that he will be with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - ‘Yet if H518 he does not redeem H1350 the field H7704, [fn]but has sold H4376 the field H7704 to another H312 person H376, it may no H3808 longer H5750 be redeemed H1350;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - ‘But if H518 it is among the unclean H2931 animals H929, then he shall [fn]redeem H6299 it according to your assessment H6187 and add H3254 to it a fifth H2549 of it; and if H518 it is not redeemed H1350, then it shall be sold H4376 according to your assessment H6187.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘Nevertheless H389, [fn]anything H3605 which H834 someone H376 sets H2763 apart H2763 to the LORD H3068 for H2763 [fn]destruction H2763 out of all H3605 that he has, of man H120 or animal H929 or of the field H7704 of his own property H272, shall not be sold H4376 nor redeemed H1350. Anything H3605 set H2764 apart H2764 for H2764 destruction H2764 is most H6944 holy H6944 to the LORD H3068.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 -

“You shall not eat H398 anything H3605 which H5038 dies H5038 of itself. You may give H5414 it to the stranger H1616 who H834 is in your [fn]town H8179, so that he may eat H398 it, or H176 you may sell H4376 it to a stranger H5237; for you are a holy H6918 people H5971 to the LORD H3068 your God H430. You shall not boil H1310 a young H1423 goat H1423 in its mother’s H517 milk H2461.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 -

“If H3588 your fellow H251 countryman H251, a Hebrew H5680 man H5680 or H176 woman H5680, is sold H4376 to you, then he shall serve H5647 you for six H8337 years H8141, but in the seventh H7637 year H8141 you shall set H7971 him [fn]free H2670.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - “But it shall be, if H518 you are not pleased H2654 with her, then you shall let H7971 her go H7971 [fn]wherever she wishes H5315; and you certainly H4376 shall not sell H4376 her for money H3701, you shall not treat H6014 her as H6014 merchandise H6014, since H8478 H834 you have [fn]humiliated H6031 her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 -

“If H3588 someone H376 is [fn]caught H4672 kidnapping H1589 any H5315 of his countrymen H251 of the sons H1121 of Israel H3478, and he treats H6014 him as H6014 merchandise H6014 and sells H4376 him, then that thief H1590 shall die H4191; so you shall eliminate H1197 the evil H7451 from among H7130 you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - “And the LORD H3068 will bring H7725 you back H7725 to Egypt H4714 in ships H591, by the way H1870 about which H834 I said H559 to you, ‘You will never H3808 see H7200 it again H3254!’ And there H8033 you will offer H4376 yourselves for H4376 sale H4376 to your enemies H340 as male H5650 and female H8198 slaves H8198 H5650, but there H369 will H369 be H369 no H369 buyer H7069.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 -

“How H351 could one H259 chase H7291 a thousand H505,

And two H8147 put H5127 ten H7233 thousand H7233 to H5127 flight H5127,

Unless H518 H3808 H3588 their Rock H6697 had sold H4376 them,

And the LORD H3068 had given H5462 them up H5462?

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - Then the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 burned H2734 against Israel H3478, and He handed H5414 H3027 them over H5414 to plunderers H8154, and they plundered H8155 them; and He sold H4376 them into the hands H3027 of their enemies H340 around H5439 them, so that they could H3201 no H3808 longer H5750 stand H5975 [fn]against H6440 their enemies H340.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Then the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 was kindled H2734 against Israel H3478, so that He sold H4376 them into the hand H3027 of Cushan-rishathaim H3573, king H4428 of [fn]Mesopotamia H763; and the sons H1121 of Israel H3478 served H5647 Cushan-rishathaim H3573 for eight H8083 years H8141.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - So the LORD H3068 sold H4376 them into the hand H3027 of Jabin H2985 king H4428 of Canaan H3667, who H834 reigned H4427 in Hazor H2674; and the commander H8269 of his army H6635 was Sisera H5516, who H834 lived H3427 in Harosheth-hagoyim H2800 H1471.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - She said H559, “I will certainly H1980 go H1980 with you; however H657 H3588, the fame H8597 shall not be yours on the journey H1870 that you are about to take H1980, for the LORD H3068 will sell H4376 Sisera H5516 into the hand H3027 of a woman H802.” Then Deborah H1683 got H6965 up H6965 and went H1980 with Barak H1301 to Kedesh H6943.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - And the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 burned H2734 against Israel H3478, and He sold H4376 them into the hands H3027 of the Philistines H6430, and into the hands H3027 of the sons H1121 of Ammon H5983.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - And he said H559 to the redeemer H1350, “Naomi H5281, who has returned H7725 from the land H7704 of Moab H4124, has to sell H4376 the plot H2513 of land H7704 which H834 belonged to our brother H251 Elimelech H458.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - “But they forgot H7911 the LORD H3068 their God H430, so He sold H4376 them into the hand H3027 of Sisera H5516, commander H8269 of the army H6635 of Hazor H2674, and into the hand H3027 of the Philistines H6430, and into the hand H3027 of the king H4428 of Moab H4124, and they fought H3898 against them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 -

Then Ahab H256 said H559 to Elijah H452, “Have you found H4672 me, enemy H340 of mine?” And he [fn]answered H559, “I have found H4672 you, because H3282 you have given H4376 yourself over H4376 to do H6213 evil H7451 in the sight H5869 of the LORD H3068.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 -

There certainly H7534 was no H3808 one like Ahab H256 who H834 gave H4376 himself over H4376 to do H6213 evil H7451 in the sight H5869 of the LORD H3068, [fn]because H834 Jezebel H348 his wife H802 incited H5496 him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - So she came H935 and told H5046 the man H376 of God H430. And he said H559, “Go H1980, sell H4376 the oil H8081 and pay H7999 your debt H5386, and you and your sons H1121 can live H2421 on the rest H3498.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - Then they made their sons H1121 and their daughters H1323 pass H5674 through the fire H784, and they practiced H7080 divination H7081 and interpreting H5172 omens H5172, and gave H4376 themselves over H4376 to do H6213 evil H7451 in the sight H5869 of the LORD H3068, provoking H3707 Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - And I said H559 to them, “We, according to our ability H1767, have [fn]redeemed H7069 our Jewish H3064 brothers H251 who were sold H4376 to the nations H1471; now would you even H1571 sell H4376 your brothers H251 that they may be sold H4376 to us?” Then they were H2790 silent H2790 and could not find H4672 a word H1697 to say.

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