יָקָר
yâqâr · yaw-kawr'
valuable (objectively or subjectively)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3365 (יָקַר);
valuable (objectively or subjectively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: brightness, clear, costly, excellent, fat, honourable women, precious, reputation.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the head, the highest
The hand that works of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָקָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and precious6 · 19%
- with the precious2 · 6%
- the precious2 · 6%
- was precious1 · 3%
- costly1 · 3%
- all these were of costly1 · 3%
- was of costly1 · 3%
- were costly1 · 3%
- and there were precious1 · 3%
- and all manner of precious1 · 3%
- with precious1 · 3%
- and for precious1 · 3%
- in brightness1 · 3%
- how excellent1 · 3%
- shall be as the fat1 · 3%
- were among thy honourable women1 · 3%
- precious1 · 3%
- all precious1 · 3%
- she is more precious1 · 3%
- for the precious1 · 3%
- is precious1 · 3%
- is of an excellent1 · 3%
- with all precious1 · 3%
- him that is in reputation1 · 3%
- a precious1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.