- Original: יקר
- Transliteration: Yaqar
- Phonetic: yaw-kar'
- Definition:
1. to esteem, be prized, be valuable, be precious, be costly, be appraised
a. (Qal)
1. to be precious, be highly valued, be esteemed, be costly
2. to be appraised
b. (Hiphil) to make something precious
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 905
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; properly apparently to be heavy that is (figuratively) valuable; causatively to make rare (figuratively to inhibit): - be (make) precious be prized be set by withdraw.
Total KJV Occurrences: 11
• at, 1
Zechariah 11:13
• by, 1
1 Samuel 18:30
• precious, 8
1 Samuel 26:21;
2 Kings 1:13;
2 Kings 1:14;
Psalm 49:8;
Psalm 72:14;
Psalm 139:17;
Isaiah 13:12;
Isaiah 43:4
• Withdraw, 1
Proverbs 25:17