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merchants

Meaning of “merchants”

Persons who buy, sell, exchange, transport, or trade goods and wares, often for gain and sometimes across lands or seas.

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29 occurrences27 verses9 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: 1 Kings 10:15

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Isaiah 23:2
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 23:2 · retained source text

Be still, yee inhabitants of the yle, thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that passe ouer the sea, haue replenished.

1611 marginal noteHeb. silent.

Isaiah 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
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1611 witness · Isaiah 23:8 · retained source text

Who hath taken this counsell against Tyre the crowning citie, whose merchants are princes, whose traffiquers are the honourable of the earth?

Isaiah 47:15
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 47:15 · retained source text

Thus shal they be vnto thee with whom thou hast laboured, euen thy merchants from thy youth, they shall wander euery one to his quarter: none shall saue thee.

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