סַחַרçachar
traffic, gain, i.e.
Pronunciation: sakh'-ar · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5504
Meanings
gain from traffic (Proverbs 3:14; Isaiah 23:3; Isaiah 23:18; Isaiah 45:14; Proverbs 31:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Proverbs 3:14 For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold.
- Proverbs 31:18 She makes sure her dealings are profitable; her lamp burns late into the night.
- Isaiah 23:3 sailing over deep waters. They brought you grain from Egypt and harvests from along the Nile. You were the marketplace of the world.
- Isaiah 23:18 But in the end her profits will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will not be hoarded but will provide good food and fine clothing for the Lord’s priests.
- Isaiah 45:14 This is what the Lord says: “You will rule the Egyptians, the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans. They will come to you with all their merchandise, and it will all be yours. They will follow you as prisoners in chains. They will fall to their knees in front of you and say, ‘God is with you, and he is the only God. There is no other.’”
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).