Topic
Merchandise
17 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Deuteronomy 21:14ISBE
And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
- Deuteronomy 24:7ISBE
¶ If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
- Proverbs 3:14ISBE
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
- Proverbs 31:18ISBE
She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
- Isaiah 23:18ISBE
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
- Isaiah 45:14ISBE
Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee,…
- Ezekiel 26:12ISBE
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
- Ezekiel 27:9ISBE
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.
- Ezekiel 27:15ISBE
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
- Ezekiel 27:24ISBE
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
- Ezekiel 27:27ISBE
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, 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…
- Ezekiel 27:33ISBE
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.
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- Ezekiel 27:34 ISBE
- Ezekiel 28:16 ISBE
- Matthew 22:5 ISBE
- John 2:16 ISBE
- 2 Peter 2:3 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 18 references
mur'-chan-diz
(1) `amar
(2) cachar,
(3) cachar,
(4) cechorach,
(5) rekhullah,
(6) ma`arabh,
(7) markoleth;
(8) emporia
(9) emporion,
(10) gomos)
: There seem to be 4 distinct meanings of the word according to the Revised Version (British and American), namely: (1) The products, i.e. goods or things sold or exchanged, and so merchandise in the present-day usage:
(a) cachar is translated thus in Pr 31:18; Isa 23:18;
(b) cachar is translated thus in Isa 45:14; these two are from a root meaning "to travel around as a peddler";
(c) rekhullah, translated thus in Eze 26:12, from a root meaning "to travel for trading purposes";
(d) ma`arabh, translated thus in Eze 27:9,27,33,34, from a root meaning "to intermix, to barter";
(e) markoleth, translated thus in Eze 27:24 (the above 5 Hebrew words are all used to designate the goods or wares which were bartered);
(f) `amar, occurring in De 21:14; 24:7, translated in the King James Version "make merchandise of," but in the Revised Version (British and American) "deal with as a slave," or the Revised Version margin "deal with as a chattel";
(g) emporia, translated "merchandise" in Mt 22:5;
(h) emporion, likewise in Joh 2:16 (the same Greek word is used in 2Pe 2:3 for the American Standard Revised Version "make merchandise of you");
(i) gomos, "merchandise," margin "cargo."
(2) The process of trade itself, i.e. the business: rekhullah has in it the root meaning of "itinerant trading", and so in Eze 28:16 the correct translation is not "merchandise," as in the King James Version, but "traffic," "abundance of thy traffic," i.e. doing a thriving business: "trade was good."
(3) The place of trading, i.e. emporium, mart, etc.: cechorah in Eze 27:15 is translated "mart." In Joh 2:16 reference is made to the "house of merchandise."
(4) The profits of trading: In Pr 3:14, cachar is translated "gaining." Referring to wisdom, "For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, and the profit thereof than fine gold"; the King James Version "merchandise."
William Edward Raffety
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 0 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → See COMMERCE
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.