מַכָּר
makar · acquaintance
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4378 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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makar (מַכָּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “acquaintance”.
A person one has dealings with. It appears only in 2 Kings 12:5, 7: each priest received the silver "from his acquaintance," that is, from the people who came to him.
How to say it
ma·kar
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
- A person one knows and has dealings with, an acquaintance.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- acquaintance ×1
- acquaintances ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 12:5
let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance, and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever a breach is found.”
- 2 Kings 12:7
King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the breaches of the house? Now do not take silver from your acquaintances, but for the breaches of the house you are to give it.”