Maʻărâb — H4627

Definition

masculine noun

traffic; by implication, mercantile goods

1. merchandise, articles of exchange

Usually translated as

market, merchandise

Origin

from H6148, in the sense of trading

• Derived from ʻârab (H6148)

Greek equivalents

• dysmḗ (G1424)
• emporía (G1711)
• émporos (G1713)
• líps (G3047)

Occurrences

Maʻărâb occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezekiel (8)

• Ezekiel 27:9 — The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise (מַעֲרָבֵֽךְ).
• Ezekiel 27:13 — Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market (מַעֲרָבֵֽךְ).
• Ezekiel 27:17 — Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market (מַעֲרָבֵֽךְ) wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
• Ezekiel 27:19 — Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market (בְּמַעֲרָבֵ֖ךְ).
• Ezekiel 27:25 — The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market (מַעֲרָבֵ֑ךְ): and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
• Ezekiel 27:27 — Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise (מַעֲרָבֵ֕ךְ), thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
• Ezekiel 27:33 — When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise (וּמַ֣עֲרָבַ֔יִךְ).
• Ezekiel 27:34 — In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise (מַעֲרָבֵ֥ךְ) and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.