מֶכֶר
mecher · price, value
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4377 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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mecher (מֶכֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “price, value”.
Price, the value of what is sold; merchandise.
How to say it
me·cher
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What something costs or what is given for it; also its worth.
- The things brought to sell, the merchandise.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- price ×2
- merchandise ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 20:19
And the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay its price. Only it is nothing: let me pass through on foot.”
- Nehemiah 13:16
And the Tyrians lived in it, bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise, and selling on the Sabbath to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
- Proverbs 31:10
A woman of worth, who can find her? And her price is far beyond pearls.