מְחִיר mᵉchîyr
Meaning
price, payment, wages
In the King James Version: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to buy;
Where it is used
- Deuteronomy 23:18 You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- 2 Samuel 24:24 “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- 1 Kings 10:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
- 1 Kings 21:2 So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”
- 2 Chronicles 1:16 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
- Job 28:15 It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
- Psalms 44:12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
- Proverbs 17:16 Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
- Proverbs 27:26 the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
- Isaiah 45:13 I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 55:1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- Jeremiah 15:13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
- Lamentations 5:4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
- Daniel 11:39 He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.
- Micah 3:11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”