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title: מְחִיר — price · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְחִיר (4242), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: price. BDB 1906: n.m. price, hire hire. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְחִיר

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«מְחִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **price** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 15 times · **Key:** 4242 · **BDB:** מְחִיר

### Glosses

a.price (6); price (5); \[are.the\].price (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

price [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4242/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. price, hire hire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4242/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. price, hire (as that which is placed in front of one, presented, offered; Assyrian maḫîru, price; maḫirânu, buyer, DlHWB 404, Prol. 94);—מ׳ abs. Mi 3:11 + 9 times; cstr. Dt 23:19 + 2 times; sf. מְחִירָהּ Jb 28:15; pl. sf. מְחִירֵיהֶם ψ 44:13;— price, often בִּמְחִיר for a price; in trade 2 S 24:24 1 K 10:28 2 Ch 1:16; cf. La 5:4 (‖ כֶּסֶף), also (no בְּ) 1 K 21:2 and מ׳ שָׂדֶה עַתּוּדִים Pr 27:26; of wisdom Jb 28:15 (‖ סְגוֹר כֶּסֶף) cf. Pr 17:16; (no בְּ); fig. בְּלוֹא־כֶסֶף וּבְלוֹא מ׳ Is 55:1 in purchase of blessings from י׳; of price of people, fig. ψ 44:13, cf. Je 15:13. hire, מ׳ כֶּלֶב (i.e. of male prostitute) Dt 23:19 (‖ אֶתְנַן זוֹנָה) v. Di Dr; of venal priests Mi 3:11 (‖ שֹׁחַר) = reward, gain, denied of Cyrus Is 45:13 (‖ id.); affirmed of Ant. Epiph. Dn 11:39.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְחִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4242/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 27:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/)

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כְּבָשִׂ֥ים לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּמְחִ֥יר שָׂ֝דֶ֗ה עַתּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* lambs \[are\].for clothing your and \[are.the\].price of.a.field goats

*JPS 1917:* The lambs will be for thy clothing, and the goats the price for a field.

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[Lamentations 5:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.4/)

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מֵימֵ֙ינוּ֙ בְּכֶ֣סֶף שָׁתִ֔ינוּ עֵצֵ֖ינוּ בִּמְחִ֥יר יָבֹֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* water our for money we.have.drunk wood(s) our for a.price they.come

*JPS 1917:* We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.

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