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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

H4376

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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5 - Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 - Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48 - After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - But they were false to the Lord their God, and he gave them up into the hands of Sisera, captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab, who made war against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

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