מָכַרmâkar
sell
Pronunciation: maw-kar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4376
Meanings
Qal: sell (Leviticus 27:20; Exodus 21:37; Isaiah 50:1)
Niph`al: be sold (Leviticus 25:48; Leviticus 25:34; Leviticus 25:50)
Hithpa`el: sell oneself (1 Kings 21:25; Deuteronomy 28:68; 2 Kings 17:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 80 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 25:31 “All right,” Jacob replied, “but trade me your rights as the firstborn son.”
- Genesis 25:33 But Jacob said, “First you must swear that your birthright is mine.” So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the firstborn to his brother, Jacob.
- Genesis 31:15 He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you paid him for us.
- Genesis 37:27 Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother—our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed.
- Genesis 37:28 So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.
- Genesis 37:36 Meanwhile, the Midianite traders arrived in Egypt, where they sold Joseph to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Potiphar was captain of the palace guard.
See every passage
- Genesis 25:31, 25:33, 31:15, 37:27, 37:28, 37:36, 45:4, 45:5, 47:20, 47:22
- Exodus 21:7, 21:8, 21:16, 21:35, 22:1, 22:3
- Leviticus 25:14, 25:15, 25:16, 25:23, 25:25, 25:27, 25:29, 25:34, 25:39, 25:42, 25:47, 25:48, 25:50, 27:20, 27:27, 27:28
- Deuteronomy 14:21, 15:12, 21:14, 24:7, 28:68, 32:30
- Judges 2:14, 3:8, 4:2, 4:9, 10:7
- Ruth 4:3
- 1 Samuel 12:9
- 1 Kings 21:20, 21:25
- 2 Kings 4:7, 17:17
- Nehemiah 5:8, 10:31, 13:15, 13:16, 13:20
- Esther 7:4
- Psalms 44:12, 105:17
- Proverbs 23:23, 31:24
- Isaiah 24:2, 50:1, 52:3
- Jeremiah 34:14
- Ezekiel 7:12, 7:13, 30:12, 48:14
- Joel 3:3, 3:6, 3:7, 3:8
- Amos 2:6
- Nahum 3:4
- Zechariah 11:5
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).