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to be precious, prized or appraised Original Word: יָקַרTransliteration: yaqar Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-kar') Short Definition: be precious
a prim. root Definition to be precious, prized or appraised NASB Word Usage costly (1), esteemed (1), make...scarcer (1), precious (6), rarely (1), valued (1). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
A primitive root; properly, apparently, to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) valuable; causatively, to make rare (figuratively, to inhibit) -- be (make) precious, be prized, be set by, withdraw.
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