Strong’s H4242 · Hebrew
מְחִיר
mᵉchîyr
mekk-eer'
Definition
price, payment, wages
Etymology
from an unused root meaning to buy;
How the KJV renders it
- gain
- hire
- price
- sold
- worth
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.