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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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Showing verses 11–20 of 27 · 29 word occurrences in this result

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?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
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
The 1611 reading
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.

Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 17:4 · retained source text

Hee cropt off the top of his yong twigs, and caried it into a land of traffique; he set it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:13 · retained source text

Iauan, Tubal and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men, and vessels of brasse in thy market.

1611 marginal noteOr, merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:15
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:15 · retained source text

The men of Dedan were thy merchants, many Iles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present, hornes of Iuorie, and Ebenie.

Ezekiel 27:17
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:17 · retained source text

Iudah and the land of Israel they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheate of Minnith, and Pannag, and honie, and oyle, & balme.

1611 marginal noteOr, rosin.

Ezekiel 27:21
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:21 · retained source text

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambes and rammes and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

1611 marginal noteHeb. they were the merchants of thy hand.

Ezekiel 27:22
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:22 · retained source text

The merchants of Shebah and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy faires with chiefe of all spices, and with all precious stones and golde.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:23 · retained source text

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Shebah, Asshur and Chilmad were thy merchants.

Ezekiel 27:24
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:24 · retained source text

These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blewe clothes and broidered worke, and in chests of rich apparell, bound with cordes and made of Cedar among thy merchandise.

1611 marginal noteOr, excellent things.

1611 marginal noteHeb. foldings.

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