מָכַר
mâkar · maw-kar'
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָכַר 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
80 occurrences · 80 OT · 0 NT · 75 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sell4 · 10%
- and sold4 · 10%
- and sell3 · 8%
- sold3 · 8%
- and selleth2 · 5%
- have ye sold2 · 5%
- and he sold2 · 5%
- to sell2 · 5%
- them: wherefore they sold1 · 3%
- may not be sold1 · 3%
- that ye sold1 · 3%
- whom ye sold1 · 3%
- and hath sold1 · 3%
- then they shall sell1 · 3%
- doth he sell1 · 3%
- and let us sell1 · 3%
- he shall sell1 · 3%
- and if thou sell1 · 3%
- if he have nothing, then he shall be sold1 · 3%
- shall not be sold1 · 3%
- it, or sell1 · 3%
- to whom he sold1 · 3%
- for he hath sold1 · 3%
- and be sold1 · 3%
- unto him: and he sold1 · 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.