1 Kings 10:15
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
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Merchants
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Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
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12 occurrences in 10 verses.
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רָכַל
râkal · raw-kal'
14 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to travel for trading
Strong's KJV usage: (spice) merchant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:15Strong's last: Nahum 3:16
Open full H7402 profile →סָחַר
çâchar · saw-khar'
10 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
Strong's KJV usage: go about, merchant(-man), occupy with, pant, trade, traffick.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:28Strong's last: Ezekiel 38:13
Open full H5503 profile →ἔμπορος
émporos · em'-por-os
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a (wholesale) tradesman
Strong's KJV usage: :--merchant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 18:3Strong's last: Revelation 18:23
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Kᵉnaʻanîy · ken-ah-an-ee'
1 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)
Strong's KJV usage: Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 41:6Strong's last: Job 41:6
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H7402
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
H5503
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
H5503
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
H5503
Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
H7402
After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
H7402
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
H7402
So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
H3669
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
H5503
She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
H5503
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
H5503
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
H5503
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
H7402
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
H7402
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
H7402
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
H7402
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
H5503
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
H7402
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.
H7402
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.
H7402
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
H7402
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
H7402
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
H5503
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
H5503
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
H7402
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
English meaning and historical usage.
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merchant
MER'CHANT, noun [Latin mercor, to buy.]
1. A man who trafficks or carries on trade with foreign countries, or who exports and imports goods and sells them by wholesale.
2. In popular usage, any trader, or one who deals in the purchase and sale of goods.
3. A ship in trade. [Not used.]
MER'CHANT, verb intransitive To trade. [Not in use.]
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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