Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
price
Usage: 1) price, hire 1a) price 1b) hire, reward, gain
Mechir means “price” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4242 — presbeia (“ambassage”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4242 מְחִיר (mchiyr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mchiyr (mekk-eer') n-m. 1. price, payment, wages [from an unused root meaning to buy] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include price, worth, sold, gain, and hire. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mchiyr (mekk-eer') n-m. 1. price, payment, wages [from an unused root meaning to buy] KJV: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4242. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
price
Usage: 1) price, hire 1a) price 1b) hire, reward, gain
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mchiyr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4242.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4242, grouped by book.
Mechir (Strong's H4242) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "price". mchiyr (mekk-eer') n-m. 1. price, payment, wages [from an unused root meaning to buy]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H4242 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4242 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as price, worth, sold, gain, and hire. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.