{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3365",
  "lemma": "יָקַר",
  "transliteration": "yâqar",
  "definition": "properly, apparently, to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) valuable; causatively, to make rare (figuratively, to inhibit)",
  "kjv": "be (make) precious, be prized, be set by, withdraw.",
  "occurrences": 11,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[יָקַר] vb. be precious, prized, appraised",
    "Qal",
    "1. be precious",
    "2. be appraised",
    "Hiph. I will make men more rare (lit. precious) than fine gold"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 18:30",
      "text": "Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 26:21",
      "text": "Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 1:13",
      "text": "Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/1?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 1:14",
      "text": "Behold, fire came down from the sky and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/1?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 13:12",
      "text": "I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 43:4",
      "text": "Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/43?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Zechariah 11:13",
      "text": "The LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter—the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/11?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 49:9",
      "text": "For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/49?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 72:14",
      "text": "He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 139:17",
      "text": "How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/139?v=17"
    }
  ],
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