Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4377
מֶכֶר
mekermeh'-ker
merchandise
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4377is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4377
merchandise; also value
The King James renders it: pay, price, ware.
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
meker is rendered "merchandise". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 20:19“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
Numbers 20:19מִכְרָ֑ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- merchandise1
- price her1
- price their1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֶכֶס | mekes | tribute | Uses6 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- מֶ֑כֶר1
- מִכְרָֽהּ׃1
- מִכְרָ֑ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
Numbers
one use
“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
- מִכְרָ֑םmikhramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: price their
Nehemiah
one use
Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.
- מֶ֑כֶרmekhernoun · masculine singulartagged: merchandise
Proverbs
one use
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
- מִכְרָֽהּ׃mikhrahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: price her
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.