מִמְכָּרmimkâr
sale, ware, thing sold (Leviticus 25:28; Leviticus 25:14; Leviticus 25:25; Leviticus 25:33; Leviticus 25:27)
Pronunciation: mim-kawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4465
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 25:14 “When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other.
- Leviticus 25:25 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him.
- Leviticus 25:27 he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land.
- Leviticus 25:28 But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.
- Leviticus 25:29 “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.
- Leviticus 25:33 And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.
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).