יְקָר yeqar
Hebrew word for “preciousness” · Strong’s H3366 · used 17 times in 15 verses
Meaning
1) price, value, preciousness, honour, splendour, pomp;
How it is translated
Glosses given for yeqar in context, with how often each is used:
- honor 12
- precious thing 2
- preciousness 1
- precious things 1
- value 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Esther 6 (5), Esther 1 (2), Psalms 49 (2), Esther 8 (1), Job 28 (1), Proverbs 20 (1), Jeremiah 20 (1), Ezekiel 22 (1), Zechariah 11 (1)
Forms
- יקר 6
- ביקרו 5
- ויקר 2
- ביקר 2
- יקרה 1
- היקר 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yeqar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חָפֵץ chaphets “to delight in” 4
- הָמָן haman “Haman” 3
- חֹסֶן chosen “wealth” 2
- גְּדוּלָּה gedulah “greatness” 2
- דָּמָה damah “to cease” 2
- מָשַׁל mashal “to use a proverb” 2
- לְבוּשׁ levush “clothing” 2
- כָּכָה kakhah “thus” 2
- לָקַח laqach “to take” 4
- רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 2
- מׇרְדֳּכַי mordekhay “Mordecai” 2
- רָכַב rakhav “to ride” 2
Key verses
The verses using yeqar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Esther 1:4 — When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
- Esther 1:20 — And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands…
- Esther 6:3 — And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done…
- Esther 6:6 — So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would…
- Esther 6:11 — Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus…
- Esther 8:16 — The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
- Psalms 49:12 — Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalms 49:20 — Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
- Proverbs 20:15 — There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
- Jeremiah 20:5 — Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of…
- Ezekiel 22:25 — There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and…
- Zechariah 11:13 — And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the…
See all 15 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.