סָחַר
sa.char
“to trade”
Definition
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
a primitive root;
- to go around, go about, travel about in, go about in trade 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go about to and fro (in business) 1a2) trader, trafficker (participle) 1b) (Pilpel) to palpitate
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
סָחַר appears 19 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
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Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
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