רָכַל
râkal · raw-kal'
to travel for trading
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to travel for trading
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (spice) merchant.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the open hand that covers › authority, the one who leads
The head, the highest of the open hand that covers of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָכַל 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
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- they were thy merchants3 · 18%
- were thy merchants2 · 12%
- the merchants2 · 12%
- of the spice merchants1 · 6%
- and of the merchants1 · 6%
- and the merchants1 · 6%
- so the merchants1 · 6%
- of the merchant1 · 6%
- of merchants1 · 6%
- which art a merchant1 · 6%
- was thy merchant1 · 6%
- these were thy merchants1 · 6%
- thy merchants1 · 6%
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.