Lexical Summary makkar: acquaintance, friend Original Word: מַכָּרTransliteration: makkar Phonetic Spelling: (mak-kawr') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: acquaintance, friend Meaning: acquaintance, friend Strong's Concordance acquaintance From nakar; an acquaintance -- acquaintance. see HEBREW nakar Brown-Driver-Briggs H4378. makkar [מַכָּר] noun masculine acquaintance, friend (dubious, compare Benzon the passage); — suffix מַכָּרוֺ 2 Kings 12:6; plural suffix מַכָּרֵיכֶם v.12:8. II. נכר (√ of following, possibly = I. נכר, whence the foreign, strange, as that which is intently regarded, so Thes, but precarious; compare Assyrian nakâru, rebel, Pa`el change, nakiru, and nakaru, enemy, nukurtu, enmity, etc.; ** be ignorant of, Qor 11:73; II. change, alter, so as not to be known, disguise Qor 27:41; IV=I, also deny, Qor 16:85 repudiate. Arabic in sense be bad, evil; II. change, alter a thing; Sabean נכר II. reject, injure, etc., נכרם injury SabDenkm76 CISiv. 81. 9; 29. 5; Minaean נכר alter HomSüdarab. Chrest. 128; Syriac reject, alienus, etc.; ** reject is rare (twice), and PS properly alienavit each time. נוּכְרַי ᵑ7 strange, foreign). |
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