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# מְחִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4242

**price** — used 15 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

price [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4242/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְחִיר: n.m. price, hire hire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4242/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. price, hire (as that which is placed in front of one, presented, offered; Assyrian maḫîru, price; maḫirânu, buyer, DlHWB 404, Prol. 94);—מ׳ abs. Mi 3:11 + 9 times; cstr. Dt 23:19 + 2 times; sf. מְחִירָהּ Jb 28:15; pl. sf. מְחִירֵיהֶם ψ 44:13;— price, often בִּמְחִיר for a price; in trade 2 S 24:24 1 K 10:28 2 Ch 1:16; cf. La 5:4 (‖ כֶּסֶף), also (no בְּ) 1 K 21:2 and מ׳ שָׂדֶה עַתּוּדִים Pr 27:26; of wisdom Jb 28:15 (‖ סְגוֹר כֶּסֶף) cf. Pr 17:16; (no בְּ); fig. בְּלוֹא־כֶסֶף וּבְלוֹא מ׳ Is 55:1 in purchase of blessings from י׳; of price of people, fig. ψ 44:13, cf. Je 15:13. hire, מ׳ כֶּלֶב (i.e. of male prostitute) Dt 23:19 (‖ אֶתְנַן זוֹנָה) v. Di Dr; of venal priests Mi 3:11 (‖ שֹׁחַר) = reward, gain, denied of Cyrus Is 45:13 (‖ id.); affirmed of Ant. Epiph. Dn 11:39.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a price (6); price (5); \[are the\] price (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/#tree)

כְּבָשִׂ֥ים לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּמְחִ֥יר שָׂ֝דֶ֗ה עַתּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* lambs \[are\].for clothing your and \[are.the\].price of.a.field goats

*JPS 1917:* The lambs will be for thy clothing, and the goats the price for a field.

[Lamentations 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.4/#tree)

מֵימֵ֙ינוּ֙ בְּכֶ֣סֶף שָׁתִ֔ינוּ עֵצֵ֖ינוּ בִּמְחִ֥יר יָבֹֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* water our for money we.have.drunk wood(s) our for a.price they.come

*JPS 1917:* We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4242.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4242/): 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).