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
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.