Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4242: מְחִיר

mᵉchîyr · pronounced mekk-eer' · “price”

Definition

price, payment, wages

KJV translates it as: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.

Word origin: from an unused root meaning to buy;

Extended definition

1) price, hire
1a) price
1b) hire, reward, gain

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4242 is translated

  • a price ×6
  • the price of ×2
  • price ×2
  • the hire of ×1
  • its ×1
  • their ×1
  • is a price ×1
  • hire ×1

Bible verses with H4242 (mᵉchîyr)

Mᵉchîyr appears in 15 verses.

  • Deuteronomy 23:18

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

  • 2 Samuel 24:24

    And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

  • 1 Kings 10:28

    And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

  • 1 Kings 21:2

    And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

  • 2 Chronicles 1:16

    And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

  • Job 28:15

    It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

  • Psalms 44:12

    Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

  • Proverbs 17:16

    Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

  • Proverbs 27:26

    The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

  • Isaiah 45:13

    I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

  • Isaiah 55:1

    Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

  • Jeremiah 15:13

    Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

  • Lamentations 5:4

    We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

  • Daniel 11:39

    Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

  • Micah 3:11

    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.

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