Strong’s H5503 · Hebrew

סָחַר
çâchar
saw-khar'

Definition

to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate

Etymology

a primitive root;

How 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.