סָחַר
sachar · gain; market
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5505 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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sachar (סָחַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gain; market”.
The gain from trading; also the place of trade.
How to say it
sa·char
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 is earned by trading.
- A place where traders of many nations come.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- gain ×1
- marketplace ×1
- than the profit ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 3:14
for her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her yield than gold.
- Isaiah 23:3
And on many waters was the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, its revenue; and it was the marketplace of nations.
- Isaiah 45:14
Thus says YHWH: “The labor of Egypt and the gain of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, will pass over to you and will be yours; they will walk behind you; in chains they will pass over; and to you they will bow down, to you they will pray: ‘Only in you is El, and there is no other; there is no other Elohim.’”