Strong's #3365: yaqar (pronounced yaw-kar')

a primitive root; properly, apparently, to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) valuable; causatively, to make rare (figuratively, to inhibit):--be (make) precious, be prized, be set by, withdraw.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâqar

1) to esteem, be prized, be valuable, be precious, be costly, be appraised

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be precious, be highly valued, be esteemed, be costly

1a2) to be appraised

1b) (Hiphil) to make something precious

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

1 Samuel 18:30: "than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by."
1 Samuel 26:21: "do thee harm, because my soul was precious this day:"
2 Kings 1:13: "and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight."
2 Kings 1:14: "fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight."
Psalms 49:8: "(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever:)"
Psalms 72:14: "their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight."
Psalms 139:17: "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum"
Proverbs 25:17: " Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate"
Isaiah 13:12: "I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir."
Isaiah 43:4: "Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give"
Zechariah 11:13: "a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty"