יָקַר (ya.qar) means “be precious” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: yaw-kar' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
יָקַר · ya.qar · be precious
1) to esteem, be prized, be valuable, be precious, be costly, be appraised 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be precious, be highly valued, be esteemed, be costly 1a2) to be appraised 1b) (Hiphil) to make something precious
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a primitive root; properly, apparently, to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) valuable; causatively, to make rare (figuratively, to inhibit)
KJV glosses: be (make) precious, be prized, be set by, withdraw.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| be precious | 2 |
| esteemed | 1 |
| is costly | 1 |
| is precious | 1 |
| precious | 1 |
| precious to me | 1 |
| scarcer | 1 |
| seldom | 1 |
| they valued me | 1 |
| you are precious | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and precious | 1 |
| be precious | 1 |
| how precious | 1 |
| more precious | 1 |
| now be precious | 1 |
| precious | 1 |
| set by | 1 |
| since thou wast precious | 1 |
| that i was prised at | 1 |
| was precious | 1 |
| withdraw | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 11 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.
Read word by wordThen Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
Read word by wordSo the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.
Read word by wordBehold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”
Read word by wordFor the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 49.9
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
Read word by wordHow precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
Read word by wordSeldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
Read word by wordI will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
Read word by wordBecause you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
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