Dictionary of Bible Themes: 5407 merchants

5407 merchants

Dictionary of Bible Themes

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Traders who bought and sold goods and articles of value, often transporting their wares from one country to another according to the demands in different localities.

Some merchants transported their goods by caravan

Genesis 37:25-28 See also Job 6:15-21

Some merchants traded by sea

Proverbs 31:14 See also 1 Kings 9:26-28 pp 2 Chronicles 8:17-18; 1 Kings 10:11-12 pp 2 Chronicles 9:10-11; 1 Kings 22:48 pp 2 Chronicles 20:35-37; Psalm 107:23; Isaiah 23:2-3; Ezekiel 27:25

Merchants often lived close to one another

Zephaniah 1:11 See also Nehemiah 3:31-32; Ezekiel 17:4

Merchants set the standards for weights and measures

Genesis 23:16 See also Hosea 12:7; Amos 8:4-6

Ordinary citizens sold goods to merchants

Proverbs 31:24 See also Genesis 37:28; Proverbs 31:18-19

Merchants were credited with wisdom and shrewdness

Matthew 13:44-46

Goods traded by merchants

Revelation 18:11-13 See also Songs 3:6; Ezekiel 27:12-24

Merchants flourished during Solomon's reign

1 Kings 10:14-15 pp 2 Chronicles 9:13-14 See also 1 Kings 10:21-22 pp 2 Chronicles 9:20-21; 1 Kings 10:26-29 pp 2 Chronicles 1:14-17

Foreign merchants in Jerusalem

Nehemiah 13:15-22

Cities famed for their merchants

Tyre

See also Ezekiel 27:1-36

Tarshish

Ezekiel 38:13; Jonah 1:3

Babylon the Great

Revelation 18:2-24