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Genesis 23

Gen. 23:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Abraham
'Abraham (Hebrew #85)
father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
KJV usage: Abraham.
Pronounce: ab-raw-hawm'
Origin: contracted from 1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
hearkened
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Ephron
`Ephrown (Hebrew #6085)
fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine
KJV usage: Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).
Pronounce: ef-rone'
Origin: from the same as 6081
; and Abraham
'Abraham (Hebrew #85)
father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
KJV usage: Abraham.
Pronounce: ab-raw-hawm'
Origin: contracted from 1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
weighed
shaqal (Hebrew #8254)
to suspend or poise (especially in trade)
KJV usage: pay, receive(-r), spend, X throughly, weigh.
Pronounce: shaw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
to Ephron
`Ephrown (Hebrew #6085)
fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine
KJV usage: Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).
Pronounce: ef-rone'
Origin: from the same as 6081
the silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
, which he had named
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
in the audience
'ozen (Hebrew #241)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
KJV usage: + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
Pronounce: o'-zen
Origin: from 238
of the sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Heth
Cheth (Hebrew #2845)
terror; Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite
KJV usage: Heth.
Pronounce: khayth
Origin: from 2865
, four
'arba` (Hebrew #702)
from 7251; four
KJV usage: four.
Pronounce: ar-bah'
Origin: masculine oarbaah {ar-baw-aw'}
hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
shekels
sheqel (Hebrew #8255)
probably a weight; used as a commercial standard
KJV usage: shekel.
Pronounce: sheh'-kel
Origin: from 8254
of silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
, current
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
money with the merchant
cachar (Hebrew #5503)
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
KJV usage: go about, merchant(-man), occupy with, pant, trade, traffick.
Pronounce: saw-khar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Abraham,
Ephron,
Heth,
Money,
Shekel,
Silver,
Son

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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weighed.
Gen. 43:21• 21And it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money according to its weight; and we have brought it again in our hand. (Gen. 43:21)
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Ezra 8:25‑30• 25and I weighed to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors and his princes, and all Israel present, had offered.
 26And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, and of gold a hundred talents;
 27and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.
 28And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.
 29Watch and keep them until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.
 30And the priests and the Levites received by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God. (Ezra 8:25‑30)
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Job 28:15• 15Choice gold cannot be given for it, nor silver be weighed for its price. (Job 28:15)
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Jer. 32:9• 9And I bought of Hanameel, mine uncle's son, the field which is in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, seventeen shekels of silver. (Jer. 32:9)
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Zech. 11:12• 12And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. And they weighed for my hire thirty silver-pieces. (Zech. 11:12)
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Matt. 7:12• 12Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do *ye* also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. (Matt. 7:12)
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Rom. 13:8• 8Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. (Rom. 13:8)
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Phil. 4:8• 8For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things. (Phil. 4:8)
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1 Thess. 4:6• 6not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified. (1 Thess. 4:6)
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Gen. 23:15• 15My lord, hearken to me. A field of four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. (Gen. 23:15)
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Ex. 30:13• 13This shall they give--every one that passeth among them that are numbered--half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary,--twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah. (Ex. 30:13)
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Ezek. 45:12• 12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. (Ezek. 45:12)
• Why so determined to weigh out the full price “current with the merchant?” FAITH is the answer. He did it all by faith. He knew the land was his in prospect, and that in glory his seed should yet possess it, and until then be would be no debtor to those who were yet to be dispossessed. (“Genesis 23” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• Abraham had learned to take his favors only from the God of resurrection, and while he would pay them for Machpelah he would look to Him for Canaan. (“Genesis 23” by C.H. Mackintosh)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the money that he had named in the ears of the sons of Heth—four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.