# H3365 יָקַר

יָקַר (yâqar), Strong’s H3365: 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…

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*yâqar* — 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.

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 18:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=30) — Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all…
- [1 Samuel 26:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=21) — Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in…
- [2 Kings 1:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/1?v=13) — 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…
- [2 Kings 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/1?v=14) — Behold, fire came down from the sky and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life…
- [Isaiah 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=12) — I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
- [Isaiah 43:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/43?v=4) — Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place…
- [Zechariah 11:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/11?v=13) — 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…
- [Psalms 49:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/49?v=9) — For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
- [Psalms 72:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=14) — He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
- [Psalms 139:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/139?v=17) — How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!