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Lexicon :: Strong's H4376 - māḵar

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מָכַר
Transliteration
māḵar
Pronunciation
maw-kar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1194

Strong’s Definitions

מָכַר mâkar, maw-kar'; a primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender):—× at all, sell (away, -er, self).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x

The KJV translates Strong's H4376 in the following manner: sell (75x), seller (4x), at all (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x
The KJV translates Strong's H4376 in the following manner: sell (75x), seller (4x), at all (1x).

  1. to sell

    1. (Qal)

      1. to sell

      2. seller (participle)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be sold

      2. to sell oneself

      3. to be given over to death

    3. (Hithpael) to sell oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָכַר mâkar, maw-kar'; a primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender):—× at all, sell (away, -er, self).
STRONGS H4376: Abbreviations
† מָכַר verb sell (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician מכר; Zinjirli מכרו price, DHMSendsch. 60; Aramaic bdb056901, מְכַר marry (i.e. buy as a wife); compare Assyrian makkûru, namkur(r)u, nakkuru, possession, property, DlHWB 408); —
Qal Perfect מ׳ Leviticus 27:20 + 2 times; suffix מְכָרוֺ Exodus 21:37 + 2 times; 1st person singular מָכַרְתִּי Isaiah 50:1 + 2 times, etc.; Imperfect יִמְכֹּר Exodus 21:7 +, etc.; Imperative מִכְרָ֫ה Genesis 25:31; feminine singular מִכְרִי 2 Kings 4:7; Infinitive absolute מָכֹר Deuteronomy 14:21; Deuteronomy 21:14; construct מְכוֺר Nehemiah 10:32; suffix מָכְרָהּ Exodus 21:8; מִכְרָם Amos 2:6; Nehemiah 13:15 (compare BaNB 104); Participle מֹכֵר (מוֺכֵר) Leviticus 25:16 + 3 times; feminine מֹכֶרֶת Nahum 3:4, etc.; — sell (with בְּ pret. Amos 2:6; Joel 4:3 [Joel 3:3]; Psalm 44:13) followed by accusative e.g. land Genesis 47:20, 22 (J), Leviticus 25:14 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Leviticus 25:25 (H; followed by מֵאֲחֻזָּתוֺ) compare Ezekiel 48:14 (followed by מִן partitive), Leviticus 25:15 (no object expressed), so Leviticus 25:27; Leviticus 27:20 (H), Ruth 4:3; house Leviticus 25:29 (H); beast Exodus 21:35; Exodus 21:37 (E); flesh Deuteronomy 14:21 (no object); crop Leviticus 25:16 (H); food Nehemiah 10:32; Nehemiah 13:15, 16, compare Nehemiah 13:20 (followed by מִמְכָר); oil 2 Kings 4:7; linen Proverbs 31:24; birthright Genesis 25:31, 33 (J); most often human beings, e.g. as slaves Genesis 37:27, 28, 36; Genesis 45:4, 5 (all J E), Exodus 21:16 (E), Deuteronomy 21:14 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 24:7, compare Amos 2:6; Nehemiah 5:8; Zechariah 11:5; Joel 4:3 [Joel 3:3]; Joel 4:6 [Joel 3:6]; Joel 4:7 [Joel 3:7]; Joel 4:8 [Joel 3:8] (twice in verse); especially daughters Exodus 21:7, 8 (E); in marriage Genesis 31:15 (E); Participle = seller Isaiah 24:2; Ezekiel 7:12, 13; figurative, object truth Proverbs 23:23; of Nineveh, selling nations גּוֺיִם Nahum 3:4; especially י׳ selling his people (to enemies), i.e. giving it entirely into their power: Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalm 44:13; Isaiah 50:1, also (בְּיַד מ׳) Judges 2:14; Judges 3:8; Judges 4:2; Judges 10:7; 1 Samuel 12:9; compare Judges 4:9 (Sisera to woman); also Ezekiel 30:12 (strike out Co after B and others).
Niph. Perfect נִמְכַּר Leviticus 25:48 + 5 times, etc.; Imperfect יִמָּכֵר Leviticus 25:34 + 3 times, etc.; Infinitive הִמָּֽכְרוֺ Leviticus 25:50; Participle plural נִמְכָּרִים Nehemiah 5:8; — be sold, of land Leviticus 25:23, 34; beast Leviticus 27:27; compare Leviticus 27:28 (all P); of human beings as slaves Exodus 22:2 for (בְּ) theft (E), Leviticus 25:42 (P), Psalm 105:17; Esther 7:4; sell oneself Leviticus 25:39, 47, 48, 50 (PH), Deuteronomy 15:12; Jeremiah 34:14; Nehemiah 5:8 (twice in verse); figurative of Israel, sold by י׳, Isaiah 50:1 for (בְּ) their sins, Isaiah 52:3; compare Esther 7:4 = given over to death.
Hithp. Perfect הִתְמַכֵּר 1 Kings 21:25; וְהִתְמַכַּרְתֶּם consecutive Deuteronomy 28:68; וַיִּתְמַכְּרוּ 2 Kings 17:17; Infinitive הִתְמַכֶּרְךָ 1 Kings 21:20; sell oneself as slave Deuteronomy 28:68; figurative 1 Kings 21:20, 25; 2 Kings 17:17, all followed by לַעֲשׂוֺת הָרַע.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:31; 25:31; 25:33; 31:15; 37:27; 37:28; 37:36; 45:4; 45:5; 47:20; 47:22

Exodus

21:7; 21:7; 21:8; 21:8; 21:16; 21:35; 22:2

Leviticus

25:14; 25:15; 25:16; 25:16; 25:23; 25:25; 25:27; 25:29; 25:34; 25:34; 25:39; 25:42; 25:47; 25:48; 25:48; 25:50; 25:50; 27:20; 27:20; 27:27; 27:28

Deuteronomy

14:21; 14:21; 15:12; 21:14; 21:14; 24:7; 28:68; 28:68; 32:30

Judges

2:14; 3:8; 4:2; 4:9; 10:7

Ruth

4:3

1 Samuel

12:9

1 Kings

21:20; 21:20; 21:25; 21:25

2 Kings

4:7; 4:7; 17:17; 17:17

Nehemiah

5:8; 5:8; 5:8; 10:32; 10:32; 13:15; 13:15; 13:16; 13:20

Esther

7:4; 7:4

Psalms

44:13; 44:13; 105:17

Proverbs

23:23; 31:24

Isaiah

24:2; 50:1; 50:1; 50:1; 52:3

Jeremiah

34:14

Ezekiel

7:12; 7:13; 30:12; 48:14

Joel

3:3; 3:3; 3:6; 3:7; 3:8

Amos

2:6; 2:6; 2:6

Nahum

3:4; 3:4

Zechariah

11:5

H4376

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Strong's Number H4376 matches the Hebrew מָכַר (māḵar),
which occurs 80 times in 74 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:31–Neh 5:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels[fn] of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5 - And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she does not please her master, who has designated her[fn] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 - “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - “When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - [fn] “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He[fn] shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - “If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - For they are my servants,[fn] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48 - then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold[fn] to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the LORD had given them up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - And she said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor,[fn] and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[fn] and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

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