Strong’s H5503 · Hebrew
סָחַר
çâchar
saw-khar'
Definition
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
Etymology
a primitive root;
Where the KJV renders it
- go about
- merchant(-man)
- occupy with
- pant
- trade
- traffick
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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