Lexicon :: Strong's H4376 - māḵar

When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.

At that time I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in stores of grain and loading them on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

“For my people and I have been sold to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”

You sell your people for nothing;

you make no profit from selling them.

He had sent a man ahead of them —

Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

Buy ​— ​and do not sell ​— ​truth,

wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

She makes and sells linen garments;

she delivers belts[fn] to the merchants.

people and priest alike,

servant and master,

female servant and mistress,

buyer and seller,

lender and borrower,

creditor and debtor.

This is what the LORD says:

Where is your mother’s divorce certificate

that I used to send her away?

Or to which of my creditors did I sell you?

Look, you were sold for your iniquities,

and your mother was sent away

because of your transgressions.

For this is what the LORD says:

“You were sold for nothing,

and you will be redeemed without silver.”

“‘At the end of seven years, each of you must let his fellow Hebrew who sold himself[fn] to you go. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free from your service.’ But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention.

The time has come; the day has arrived.

Let the buyer not rejoice

and the seller not mourn,

for wrath is on her whole crowd.

“I will make the streams dry

and sell the land to evil men.

I will bring desolation

on the land and everything in it

by the hands of foreigners.

I, the LORD, have spoken.

“They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this choice part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.

They cast lots for my people;

they bartered a boy for a prostitute

and sold a girl for wine to drink.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel

for three crimes, even four,

because they sell a righteous person for silver

and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute,

the attractive mistress of sorcery,

who treats nations and clans like merchandise

by her prostitution and sorcery,

“Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD because I have become rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.