Words the Bible translates as merchant
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kena'anכְּנַעַןa merchant: a dealer in goods, called by the name of the coast whose traders dominated the business
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- Canaan: the country west of the Jordan, and the ancestor whose name it carries
- emporosἔμποροςa merchant: a trader who deals in goods carried from far away, buying them to sell on at a profit
- saḥarסָחַרto do business as a traveling trader, buying and selling goods; (as a participle) a merchant
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- to move restlessly about; (of the heart) to pound or throb
- rakhalרָכַלa traveling merchant: a trader or peddler who goes from place to place buying and selling goods
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