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# יְקָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3366

**preciousness** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

preciousness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3366/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְקָר: n.m. preciousness, price, honour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3366/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. preciousness, price, honour (late: cf. BA 𝔗 יְקָר, ܐܻܝܩܳܪ glory);—abs. יְקָר Zc 11:13 + 5 times; בִּיקָר etc. ψ 49:13 + 3 times; cstr. יְקָר Est 1:4; sf. בִּיקָרוֹ 6:6 + 4 times; יְקָרָהּ Je 20:5;— preciousness: = precious (costly) things (coll.) Je 20:5 (om. 𝔊), חֹסֶן וִיקָר Ez 22:25; כָּל־יְקָר Jb 28:10. כְּלִי יְקָר Pr 20:15 a jewel of preciousness = precious jewel (‖ זָהָב, פְּנִינִים). price Zc 11:13, v. יָקַר 2. honour, ψ 49:13, 21; elsewhere only Est.: יְקָר תִּפְאֶרֶת גְּדוּלָּתוֹ Est 1:4 (‖ כְּבוֹד מַלְכוּתוֹ); יִתְּנוּ יְקָר לְ v 20 all wives give honour to their lords; מַה־נַּעֲשָׂה יְקָר וּגְדוּלָּה לְמָרְדְּכַי 6:3, c. עשׂה לְ also v 6; לַיְּהוּדִים הָֽיְתָה אוֹרָה וְשִׂמְחָה וְשָׂשׂן וִיקָר 8:16; (הָ)אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר הַמֶּלֶךְ חָפֵץ בִּיקָרוֹ the man in whose honour the king delighteth 6:6, 7, 9(×2), 11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: honor (11); of preciousness (1); precious thing (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 20:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.15/#tree)

יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְרָב־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּכְלִ֥י יְ֝קָ֗ר שִׂפְתֵי־דָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] gold and abundance of.jewels and.\[are\] an.article of.preciousness lips of.knowledge

*JPS 1917:* There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

[Esther 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.16/#tree)

לַיְּהוּדִ֕ים הָֽיְתָ֥ה אוֹרָ֖ה וְשִׂמְחָ֑ה וְשָׂשֹׂ֖ן וִיקָֽר׃

*Word for word:* to the Jews it.belonged light and gladness and joy and honor

*JPS 1917:* The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3366.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3366/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).