mechir · price, payment

What it means

mechir (מְחִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “price, payment”.

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. What is paid for something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Daniel×1
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 23:18

  You shall not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of YHWH your Elohim for any vow, for an abomination to YHWH your Elohim are both of them.

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; and I will not offer up to YHWH my Elohim burnt offerings for nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  And the source of the horses that belonged to Solomon was from Egypt and from Kue; the merchants of the king would take them from Kue at a price.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that it may be mine for a garden of vegetables, for it is near, beside my house; and I will give you in its place a vineyard better than it; or, if it is good in your eyes, I will give you silver, the price of it.”

• 2 Chronicles 1:16

  The source of the horses that Solomon had was from Egypt and from Kue; the king’s merchants would take them from Kue at a price.

• Job 28:15

  Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can silver be weighed as its price.

• Psalms 44:12

  You sell your people for nothing, and you have not gained by their price.

• Proverbs 17:16

  Why is this price in the hand of the senseless to acquire wisdom, when sense there is none?

• Proverbs 27:26

  the lambs are for your clothing, and the price of a field the male goats,

• Isaiah 45:13

  I have stirred him up in righteousness, and all his ways I will make straight; he will build my city and let my exiles go, not for a price nor for a bribe,” says YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 55:1

  “Ho! All who are thirsty, come to the waters! And the one who has no silver, come, buy and eat; come, buy without silver and without price wine and milk.

• Jeremiah 15:13

  Your wealth and your treasures as plunder I will give, not for a price, and for all your sins, and in all your territory.

• Lamentations 5:4

  Our water we drink for silver; our wood comes to us for a price.

• Daniel 11:39

  And he will act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god; those who acknowledge him he will greatly increase in honor, and he will make them rule over many, and the land he will divide for a price.

• Micah 3:11

  Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets divine for silver; and on YHWH they lean, saying, “Is not YHWH in our midst? No evil will come upon us.”