ikar · farmer

What it means

ikar (אִכָּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “farmer”.

One who works and sows the land.

How to say it

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

1. One who tills the land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• farmers ×5
• farmer ×2

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Joel×1
• Amos×1

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fertile fields, for he loved the ground.

• Isaiah 61:5

  And strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks, and foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

• Jeremiah 14:4

  Because the ground is cracked, for there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 31:24

  And Judah and all its cities will live in it together, farmers and those who move about with the flock.

• Jeremiah 51:23

  and I will shatter with you shepherd and his flock; and I will shatter with you farmer and his team; and I will shatter with you governors and prefects.

• Joel 1:11

  Be ashamed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished.

• Amos 5:16

  Therefore thus says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, Adonai: In all the squares there will be lamenting, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” And they will call the farmer to mourning, and to lamenting those skilled in wailing.