יְקָר
yĕqār
preciousness
Strong's H3366NounHebrewTWOT 905b

יְקָר (yĕqār) is a Hebrew noun meaning preciousness. It appears 17 times in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3366).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 905b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 905b)preciousness, price, honour; value, wealth, costliness, dignity; precious
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

יְקָר noun, masculine: preciousness, price, honour

Strong's H3366 יְקָר: value, i.e. (concretely) wealth; abstractly, costliness, dignity
KJV:honour, precious (things), price.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 905: יָקַר yāqar — be precious, prized, appraised; be heavy, valuable, make rare, inhibit; be set by, withdraw

See it in Scripture

Esther 1:4Job 28:10Proverbs 20:15

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