Topic
Wares
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Nehemiah 10:31ISBE
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
- Nehemiah 13:16ISBE
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 13:20ISBE
So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
- Jeremiah 10:17ISBE
¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
- Ezekiel 27:16ISBE
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
- Ezekiel 27:18ISBE
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
- 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.
- Jonah 1:5ISBE
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
warz (maqqachah, mekher, mimkar, kin`ah, ma`aseh, `izzabhon, keli):
(1) maqqachah, something received or purchased (Ne 10:31);
(2) mekher, "price" or "pay," value, merchandise (Ne 13:16);
(3) mimkar, a "selling," the thing sold (Ne 13:20);
(4) kin`ah, a "package," hence, wares (Jer 10:17);
(5) ma`aseh, "transaction," activity, property, possession, work, occupation, thing made, deed, business (Eze 27:16,18);
(6) `izzabhon, "selling," trade, revenue, mart, letting go for a price (Eze 27:33);
(7) keli, a "prepared" something, as an implement, tool, weapon, utensil, armor, furniture, sack, vessel, hence, wares (Jon 1:5).
In most cases the real sense is merchandise (see MERCHANDISE). "That which did not a little amuse the Merchandizers (in Vanity-Fair) was, that these Pilgrims set very light by all their Wares; they cared not so much as to look upon them" (Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress).
William Edward Raffety
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.