yekar · precious thing, honor

What it means

yekar (יְקָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “precious thing, honor”.

Honor, value; what is precious in something. Also the dignity given to a person.

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. Public recognition given to a person for his worth or service.
2. A thing of great value, like jewels or riches, or what it costs.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• honor ×10
• dignity ×2
• precious ×2
• precious things ×2
• price ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Esther×10
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Esther 1:4

  while he showed the riches of the glory of his kingdom and the honor of the splendor of his greatness for many days, a hundred and eighty days.

• Esther 1:20

  And when the decree of the king that he makes is heard in all his kingdom, for it is great, all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the great to the small.”

• Esther 6:3

  And the king said, “What honor and greatness has been done for Mordecai for this?” And the king’s young men who served him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

• Esther 6:6

  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”

• Esther 6:7

  And Haman said to the king, “The man whom the king delights to honor,

• Esther 6:9

  and let the robe and the horse be given into the hand of a man from among the king’s officials, the nobles, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them make him ride on the horse through the square of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

• Esther 6:11

  And Haman took the robe and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and made him ride through the square of the city, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

• Esther 8:16

  For the Jews there was light and gladness, and joy and honor.

• Job 28:10

  In the rocks he cuts channels, and every precious thing his eye sees.

• Psalms 49:12

  But man, in his dignity, does not remain; he is like the livestock that are destroyed.

• Psalms 49:20

  Man in dignity, but who does not understand, is like the livestock that are destroyed.

• Proverbs 20:15

  There is gold and an abundance of pearls, but a precious vessel are lips of knowledge.

• Jeremiah 20:5

  And I will give all the wealth of this city and all the fruit of its labor and all its precious things; and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them and take them and bring them to Babylon.

• Ezekiel 22:25

  A conspiracy of her prophets is in her midst, like a lion roaring, tearing prey; they have devoured souls; they take wealth and precious things; they have multiplied her widows in her midst.

• Zechariah 11:13

  And YHWH said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of YHWH, to the potter.

And 2 more times.