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Strong's H4376 מָכַר (makar)

Makar means “sell” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4376 — prosphora (“presentation”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4376
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 74
Books 20

Strong's H4376 Quick Answer

Strong's H4376 מָכַר (makar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. makar (maw-kar') v. 1. to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender) [a primitive root] It has 74 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include sell, into, selleth, sold, and all. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
makar (maw-kar') v. 1. to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender) [a primitive root]
Usage
74 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
sell, into, selleth, sold, and all

Meaning and Definition

makar (maw-kar') v. 1. to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender) [a primitive root] KJV: X at all, sell (away, -er, self). [?]

Original Word
מָכַר
Transliteration
makar
Derivation
Root: מכר
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4376. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to sell

Usage: 1) to sell 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sell 1a2) seller (participle) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be sold 1b2) to sell oneself 1b3) to be given over to death 1c) (Hithpael) to sell oneself

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How Strong's H4376 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render makar, 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.

Sell Genesis 25:31 22× into Deuteronomy 28:68 selleth Exodus 21:16 all Leviticus 27:28 sold Genesis 25:33 away Leviticus 25:25 they Genesis 37:28 you Genesis 45:4 daughters 2 Kings 17:17 let Genesis 37:27 sellest Psalms 44:12

How Strong's H4376 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 74 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4376 by Corpus

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.

Strong's H4376 in the Old Testament

74 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 25:31 KJV

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

Genesis 25:33 KJV

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

Genesis 31:15 KJV

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

Usage Excerpts

First 74 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4376.

Genesis 25:31 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Genesis 25:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Genesis 31:15 Old Testament, KJV
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Genesis 37:27 Old Testament, KJV
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
Genesis 37:28 Old Testament, KJV
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis 37:36 Old Testament, KJV
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
Genesis 45:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Genesis 45:5 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 47:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis 47:22 Old Testament, KJV
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Exodus 21:7 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus 21:8 Old Testament, KJV
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Exodus 21:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:35 Old Testament, KJV
And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
Exodus 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Leviticus 25:14 Old Testament, KJV
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Leviticus 25:15 Old Testament, KJV
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Leviticus 25:16 Old Testament, KJV
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Leviticus 25:23 Old Testament, KJV
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Leviticus 25:25 Old Testament, KJV
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
Leviticus 25:27 Old Testament, KJV
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
Leviticus 25:29 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Leviticus 25:34 Old Testament, KJV
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
Leviticus 25:39 Old Testament, KJV
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Leviticus 25:42 Old Testament, KJV
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Leviticus 25:47 Old Testament, KJV
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
Leviticus 25:48 Old Testament, KJV
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
Leviticus 25:50 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
Leviticus 27:20 Old Testament, KJV
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
Leviticus 27:27 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
Leviticus 27:28 Old Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
Deuteronomy 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:12 Old Testament, KJV
And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
Deuteronomy 24:7 Old Testament, KJV
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 28:68 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Judges 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
Judges 4:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Judges 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges 10:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
Ruth 4:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
1 Samuel 12:9 Old Testament, KJV
And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
1 Kings 21:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Kings 21:25 Old Testament, KJV
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
2 Kings 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Nehemiah 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
Nehemiah 10:31 Old Testament, KJV
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah 13:15 Old Testament, KJV
In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah 13:16 Old Testament, KJV
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13:20 Old Testament, KJV
So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
Esther 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Psalms 44:12 Old Testament, KJV
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms 105:17 Old Testament, KJV
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Proverbs 23:23 Old Testament, KJV
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 31:24 Old Testament, KJV
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Isaiah 24:2 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Isaiah 50:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Isaiah 52:3 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Jeremiah 34:14 Old Testament, KJV
At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Ezekiel 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
Ezekiel 30:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 48:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
Joel 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Joel 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Joel 3:7 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Joel 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Amos 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Nahum 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Zechariah 11:5 Old Testament, KJV
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4376, grouped by book.

Genesis 10 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 16 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 6 usages, Old Testament
Judges 5 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Old Testament
Joel 4 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H4376 FAQ

What does makar (מָכַר) mean?

Makar (Strong's H4376) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sell". makar (maw-kar') v. 1. to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender) [a primitive root]

How many times is makar (מָכַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 74 linked usages for Strong's H4376 across 20 books.

Where can I study makar (מָכַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4376 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate makar (מָכַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sell, into, selleth, sold, all, and away. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.