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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
Dictionary Aids

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - And Jacob said to Esau, Sell me this day thy birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob said to him, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him; and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - Come, let us sell him to these Ismaelites, but let not our hands be upon him, because he is our brother and our flesh; and his brethren hearkened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - And the men, the merchants of Madian, went by, and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they brought Joseph down into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - And the Madianites sold Joseph into Egypt; to Petephres, the eunuch of Pharao, captain of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - And Joseph said to his brethren, Draw nigh to me; and they drew nigh; and he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom ye sold into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:5 - Now then be not grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you for life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - And Joseph bought all the land of the Egyptians, for Pharao; for the Egyptians sold their land to Pharao; for the famine prevailed against them, and the land became Pharao's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - except only the land of the priests; Joseph bought not this, for Pharao gave a portion in the way of gift to the priests; and they ate their portion which Pharao gave them; therefore they sold not their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maid-servants depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she be not pleasing to her master, [fn]after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 - (LXX 21:17) Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him [fn] certainly die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - (LXX 21:37) And if one steal [fn]an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - (LXX 22:2) But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if [fn]a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - And if thou shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - According as there may be a greater number of years he shall increase the value of his possession, and according as there may be a less number of years he shall lessen the value of his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - And if thy brother who is with thee be poor, and should have sold part of his possession, and his kinsman who is nigh to him come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until the time is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall not serve thee with the servitude of a slave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a common servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48 - after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shall redeem him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - And if he do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - And if thy brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt send him out free from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - And it shall be if thou do not delight in her, thou shalt send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, thou shalt not treat her contemptuously, because thou hast humbled her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - And if a man should be caught stealing [fn]one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - And the Lord shall bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, Thou shalt not see it again; and ye shall be sold there to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How [fn]should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and he gave them into the hands of the spoilers, and they spoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, and they could not any longer resist their enemies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of Chusarsathaim king of Syria of the rivers: and the children of Israel served Chusarsathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - And the Lord sold the children of Israel into the hand of Jabin king of Chanaan, who ruled in Asor; and the chief of his host was Sisara, and he dwelt in Arisoth of the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - And she said, I will surely go with thee; but know that thy honour shall not attend on the expedition on which thou goest, for the Lord shall sell Sisara into the hands of a woman: and Debbora arose, and went with Barac out of Cades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of the Phylistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - And Booz said to the relative, The matter regards the portion of the field which was our brother Elimelech's which was given to Noemin, now returning out of the land of Moab;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - And they forgot the Lord their God, and he sold them into the hands of Sisara captain of the host of Jabis king of Asor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab; and he fought with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - (LXX 20:20) And Achaab said to Eliu, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? and he said, I have found thee: because thou hast [fn]wickedly sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (LXX 20:25) But Achaab did wickedly, [fn]in that he sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his wife Jezabel led him astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - And she came and told the man of God: and Elisaie said, Go, and sell the oil, and thou shalt pay thy [fn]debts, and thou and thy sons shall live of the remaining oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and [fn]sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do ye sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.

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