Strong's #4242: mchiyr (pronounced mekk-eer')

from an unused root meaning to buy; price, payment, wages:--gain, hire, price, sold, worth.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mechı̂yr

1) price, hire

1a) price

1b) hire, reward, gain

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to buy

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Deuteronomy 23:18: "bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God"
2 Samuel 24:24: "but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer"
1 Kings 10:28: "and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
1 Kings 10:28: "and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
1 Kings 21:2: "than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money."
1 Kings 21:2: "than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money."
2 Chronicles 1:16: "the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
2 Chronicles 1:16: "the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
Job 28:15: "for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price"
Job 28:15: "for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price"
Psalms 44:12: "for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price."
Psalms 44:12: "for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price."
Proverbs 17:16: "Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no"
Proverbs 17:16: "Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no"
Proverbs 27:26: "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field."
Proverbs 27:26: "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field."
Isaiah 45:13: "and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD"
Isaiah 45:13: "and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD"
Isaiah 55:1: "without money and without price."
Isaiah 55:1: "without money and without price."
Jeremiah 15:13: "will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders."
Jeremiah 15:13: "will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders."
Lamentations 5:4: "our water for money; our wood is sold"
Lamentations 5:4: "our water for money; our wood is sold"
Daniel 11:39: "and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain."
Daniel 11:39: "and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain."
Micah 3:11: "for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean"
Micah 3:11: "for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean"