מִמְכָּר
sale
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4465 appears in the Book of Deuteronomy — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ממכר — transliterated mimkâr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “sale.” More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Leviticus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Leviticus 25:14. Related forms include מכר, מכר and ממכרת. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4465 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 7 verses 70%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 10%
- Nehemiah 1 verse 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 80%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 10%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Is sold 2×, Sale 2×
- American Standard Version: Sale 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: He sold 2×, Sale 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sale 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4465 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4465 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4465 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4465 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- sale, ware, thing sold
Word origin
n.m. Lv 25:28 sale, ware;—abs. מ׳ Lv 25:14 + 2 times; cstr. מִמְכַּר Lv 25:25, 33; מִמְכָּרוֹ Lv 25:27 + 3 times; pl. sf. מִמְכָּרָיו Dt 18:8 (but v. sub מֶכֶר);—sale Lv 25:27, 29, 50; thing sold Lv 25:14 (acc. cogn.), v 25, 28 Ez 7:13 Ne 13:20; מִמְכַּר בַּיִת Lv 25:33 (Hex. only PH). On Dt 18:8 v. מֶכֶר.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מכר (mâkar) (H4376) — to sell.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָכַר
- to sell. Sifré Deut. 169 (ref. to Deut. XVIII, 8) מה מָכְרוּ וכ׳ what have the fathers sold to one another? (Answ. the weekly turns); Succ. 56ᵃ; Y. ib. V, end, 55ᵈ. B. Bath. 64ᵇ, a. fr. מוֹכֵר בעין יפה מוכר the seller is presumed to sell liberally, i.e. to sell all except that which is specified as excluded; מ׳ בעיין רעה מ׳ he sells only that which is specified as sold. Ib. IV, 1 …המוכר … לא מ׳ וכ׳ if one sells …, he has not implicitly sold &c. Sot. III, 8 אין האשה מוֹכֶרֶת וכ׳ a woman cannot sell her daughter; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מָכוּר; f. מְכוּרָה; pl. מְכוּרִים מְכוּרִין; מְכוּרוֹת. Tosef. Ab. Zar. III (IV), 18 הרי זה מ׳ he is sold (the sale is valid). B. Bath. IV, 3. Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 8 חביות המ׳ וכ׳ wine casks which have been sold to the shopkeeper (awaiting delivery); a. v. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 18:8
- to be sold. Sot. l. c. האיש נ׳ … נִמְכֶּרֶת a man can be sold for his theft, but a woman cannot &c. Mekh. Mishp. s. 2; a. fr.
*מְכַר
- , Ithpa. אִתְמַכַּר (denom. of מַכָּר) to be made acquainted. Targ. Prov. XIX, 14 Var. ed. Lag. (ed. מתמסרא, v. מְסַר).
מֶכֶר
- sale. Kidd. 6ᵇ במ׳ לא קנה if the transaction is a sale (of land), he has not acquired possession (by delivering the purchasing money as a loan). Ib. 47ᵃ ושוין במ׳ and they agree in the case of a sale. Keth. XI, 4 מִכְרָהּ בטל her sale is invalid; a. fr.—V. מִמְכָּר.
מַכָּר
- acquaintance, friend. Y. Gitt. III, 45ᵃ ויש מ׳ לעני has the poor man a friend?, i.e., is he who separates the poor man’s tithes permitted to reserve them for a certain person?—Pl. מַכָּרִים, constr. מַכָּרֵי. Ib. במ׳ כהונה וכ׳ the Mishnah speaks of friends of priests or Levites (to whom the owner is in the habit of giving the priestly shares); Bab. Gitt. 30ᵃ. Ib. במ׳ לא קתני (sub. כהונה) the Mishnah does not distinctly speak of friends. Ḥull. 133ᵃ; a. fr.
מִמְכָּר
- sale. B. Bath. 155ᵇ מִמְכָּרָהּ מ׳ her sale is valid.—Ib. מִמְכָּרָן מ׳ their sale &c.; a. e.—מקח ומ׳ commerce, commercial transactions. B. Mets. 79ᵇ; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H4465 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/מִּמְכָּר֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 7:13 | 1 |
| מִמְכַּ֥ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:25 | 1 |
| מִמְכַּר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:33 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּ֛ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 13:20 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּר/וֹ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:50 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּר֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:29 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּר֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:27 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּר֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:28 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּר֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 25:14 | 1 |
| מִמְכָּרָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Deuteronomy 18:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4465, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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