מָכַר mâkar — to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
Translated in the KJV as × at all, sell (away, -er, self).
a primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender).
mâkar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 15Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Wayyiqtol 8Participle (active) 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Infinitive construct 4Imperative 2Infinitive absolute 2Cohortative 1Jussive 1
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Infinitive construct 1Participle (passive) 1
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
Hitpa'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›