Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
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Ezekiel 27:27
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
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עִזָּבוֹן
ʻizzâbôwn · iz-zaw-bone'
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
trade, i.e. the place (mart) or the payment (revenue)
Strong's KJV usage: fair, ware.
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 27:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:27
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Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
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They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
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Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
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Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
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Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
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fair
FAIR, adjective
1. Clear; free from spots; free from a dark hue; white; as a fair skin; a fair complexion. hence,
2. Beautiful; handsome; properly, having a handsome face.
Thou art a fair woman to look upon. Genesis 12:11. Hence,
3. Pleasing to the eye; handsome or beautiful in general.
Thus was be fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches. Ezekiel 31:3.
4. Clear; pure; free from feculence or extraneous matter; as fair water.
5. Clear; not cloudy or overcast; as fair weather; a fair sky.
6. Favorable; prosperous; blowing in a direction towards the place of destination; as a fair wind at sea.
7. Open; direct, as a way or passage. You are in a fair way to promotion. hence, likely to succeed. he stands as fair to succeed as any man.
8. Open to attack or access; unobstructed; as a fair mark; a fair butt; fair in sight; in fair sight; a fair view.
9. Open; frank; hones; hence, equal; just; equitable. My friend is a fair man; his offer is fair; his propositions are fair and honorable.
10. Not effected by insidious or unlawful methods; not foul.
He died a fair and natural death.
11. Frank; candid; not sophistical or insidious; as a fair disputant.
12. Honest; honorable; mild; opposed to insidious and compulsory; as, to accomplish a thing by fair means.
13. Frank; civil; pleasing; not harsh.
When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty.
14. Equitable; just; erited.
His doom is fair
That dust I am, and shall to dust return.
15. Liberal; not narrow; as a fair livelihood.
16. Plain; legible; as, the letter is written in a fair hand.
17. Free from stain or blemish; unspotted; untarnished; as a fair character or fame.
FAIR, adverb
1. Openly; frankly; civilly; complaisantly.
One of the company spoke him fair
2. Candidly; honestly; equitably; He promised fair
3. Happily; successfully.
Now fair befall thee.
4. On good terms; as, to keep fair with the world; to stand fair with one's companions.
To bid fair is to be likely, or to have a fair prospect.
FAIR and square, just dealing; honesty.
FAIR, noun
1. Elliptically, a fair woman; a handsome female. The fair the female sex.
2. Fairness; applied to things or persons. [Not used.]
FAIR, noun [Latin forum, or feriae, a holiday, a day exempt from labor; Gr. to trade, whence, emporium, the primary sense of which is to pass.]
A stated market in a particular town or city; a stated meeting of buyers and sellers for trade. A fair is annual or more frequent. The privilege of holding fairs is granted by the king or supreme power. Among the most celebrated fairs in Europe are those of Frankfort and Leipsic in Germany; of Novi in the Milanese; of Riga and Archangel in Russia; of Lyons and St. Germain in France. In Great Britain many towns enjoy this privilege.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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