Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4242
מְחִיר
mechirmekk-eer'
price
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉchîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4242is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4242
price, payment, wages
The King James renders it: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mechir is rendered "price". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18וּמְחִ֣יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- for a price6
- a price1
- and hire of1
- and price of1
- by prices their1
- for hire1
- for price1
- price1
- price its1
- price of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּמְחִֽיר׃3
- בִמְחִיר֙1
- בִמְחִ֑יר1
- בִּמְחִ֔יר1
- בִּמְחִ֥יר1
- בִּמְחִ֣יר1
- בִּמְחִירֵיהֶֽם׃1
- וּמְחִ֣יר1
- וּמְחִ֥יר1
- מְחִ֥יר1
- מְחִ֣יר1
- מְחִ֖יר1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular8HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
Deuteronomy
one use
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- וּמְחִ֣ירumechirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and hire of
2 Samuel
one use
“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- בִּמְחִ֔ירbimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for a price
1 Kings
two uses
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
- בִּמְחִֽיר׃bimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for a price
So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”
- מְחִ֥ירmechirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: price of
2 Chronicles
one use
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
- בִּמְחִֽיר׃bimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for a price
Job
one use
It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
- מְחִירָֽהּ׃mechirahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: price its
Psalms
one use
You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
- בִּמְחִירֵיהֶֽם׃bimchireihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by prices their
Proverbs
two uses
Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
- מְחִ֣ירmechirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a price
the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
- וּמְחִ֥ירumechirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and price of
Isaiah
two uses
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
- בִמְחִיר֙vimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for hire
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- מְחִ֖ירmechirnoun · masculine singulartagged: price
Jeremiah
one use
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
- בִמְחִ֑ירvimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for price
Lamentations
one use
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
- בִּמְחִ֥ירbimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for a price
Daniel
one use
He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.
- בִּמְחִֽיר׃bimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for a price
Micah
one use
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- בִּמְחִ֣ירbimchirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for a price
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.