STRONGS NUMBER H3366


Word Summary
yeqar: preciousness, price, honor
Original Word: יְקָר
Transliteration: yeqar
Phonetic Spelling: (yek-awr')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: preciousness, price, honor
Meaning: value, wealth, costliness, dignity
Strong's Concordance
honor, precious things, price

From yaqar; value, i.e. (concretely) wealth; abstractly, costliness, dignity -- honour, precious (things), price.

see HEBREW yaqar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3366. yeqar

יְקָר‎ noun masculine preciousness, price, honour (late: compare BA יְקָר ᵑ7‎, glory); — absolute יְקָר‎ Zechariah 11:13 5t.; בִּיקָר‎ etc. Psalm 49:13 3t.; construct יְקָר‎ Esther 1:4; suffix בִּיקָרוֺ‎ 6:6 4t.; יְקָרָהּ‎ Jeremiah 20:5; —

1 preciousness:

a. = precious (costly) things (collective) Jeremiah 20:5 (om. ᵐ5‎), וִיקָר חֹסֶן‎ Ezekiel 22:25; כָּליְֿקָר‎ Job 28:10.

b. יְקָר כְּלִי‎ Proverbs 20:15 a jewel of preciousness = precious jewel ("" מְּנִינִים זָהָב,‎).

2 price Zechariah 11:13, see יָקַר‎

2, 3. honour, Psalm 49:13; Psalm 49:21; elsewhere only Esther: גְּדוּלָּתוֺ תִּפְאֶרֶת יְקָר‎ Esther 1:4 ("" מַלְכוּתוֺ כְּבוֺד‎); לְ יְקָר יִתְּנוּ‎ 1:20 all wives give honour to their lords; לְמָרְדְּכַי וּגְדוּלָּה יְקָר מַהנַּֿעֲשָׂה‎ 6:3, with לְ עשׂה‎ also 6:6; וִיקָר וְשָׂשׂן וְשִׂמְחָה אוֺרָה הָֽיְתָה לַיְּהוּדִים‎ 8:16; בִּיקָרוֺ חָפֵץ הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲשֶׁר (הָ)אִישׁ‎ the man in whose honour the king delighteth 6:6-7, 9 (twice in verse); 6:11.

[יְקָר‎] noun masculineDaniel 2:6 honour (see Biblical Hebrew); — absolute וִיקָר‎) 2:6; 7:14; construct id. 4:27, לִיקַר‎ 4:33 (K§ 57. Anm. Str קָר‎-); emphatic וִיקָרָא‎ 2:37; 5:18, הָ֯‎ 5:20.