מְחִירmᵉchîyr
price, hire, as that which is placed in front of one, presented, offered
Pronunciation: mekk-eer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4242
Meanings
1. price (2 Samuel 24:24; 1 Kings 10:28; 2 Chronicles 1:16)
2. hire (Deuteronomy 23:19; Micah 3:11; Isaiah 45:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 15 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 23:18 When you are bringing an offering to fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the house of the Lord your God any offering from the earnings of a prostitute, whether a man or a woman, for both are detestable to the Lord your God.
- 2 Samuel 24:24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the Lord my God that have cost me nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the threshing floor and the oxen.
- 1 Kings 10:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Cilicia; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.
- 1 Kings 21:2 One day Ahab said to Naboth, “Since your vineyard is so convenient to my palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it.”
- 2 Chronicles 1:16 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Cilicia; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.
- Job 28:15 It cannot be bought with gold. It cannot be purchased with silver.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).