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# סַחַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5504

**traffic** — used 7 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

traffic [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5504/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַ֫חַר: n.m. traffic, gain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5504/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 3:14 traffic, gain;—cstr. סְחַר Is 23:3 + 2 times; sf. סַחְרָהּ Pr 3:14 + 3 times;—traffic, i.e. gain from traffic, Is 23:3, 18 (+ אֶתְנַנָּהּ), v 18; 45:14 Pr 3:14(×2); 31:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: profit (4); \[the\] trading profit (1); than \[the\] trading profit (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.14/#tree)

כִּ֤י ט֣וֹב סַ֭חְרָהּ מִסְּחַר־כָּ֑סֶף וּ֝מֵחָר֗וּץ תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].good profit her.trading more than.\[the\].trading.profit of.silver and more than.gold gain her

*JPS 1917:* For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

[Proverbs 31:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.18/#tree)

טָ֭עֲמָה כִּי־ט֣וֹב סַחְרָ֑הּ לֹֽא־יִכְבֶּ֖ה בַלַּ֣יְלָה נֵרָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* she.tastes (dm).that \[is\].good profit her.trading not it.is.extinguished in the night lamp her

*JPS 1917:* She perceiveth that her merchandise is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5504.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5504/): 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).