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
Open full G1713 profile →כְּנַעַנִי
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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G1713
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
G1713
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
G1713
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
G1713
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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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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