- Original: יקר
- Transliteration: Yaqar
- Phonetic: yaw-kar'
- Definition: 
1. to esteem, be prized, be valuable, be precious, be costly, be appraised 
a. (Qal) 
1. to be precious, be highly valued, be esteemed, be costly 
2. to be appraised 
b. (Hiphil) to make something precious 
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 905
- Part(s) of speech: Verb 
- Strong's: A primitive root; properly apparently to be heavy that is (figuratively) valuable; causatively to make rare (figuratively to inhibit): - be (make) precious be prized be set by withdraw. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 11 
 • at, 1
 
Zechariah 11:13 
 
 • by, 1
 
1 Samuel 18:30 
 
 • precious, 8
 
1 Samuel 26:21; 
2 Kings 1:13; 
2 Kings 1:14; 
Psalm 49:8; 
Psalm 72:14; 
Psalm 139:17; 
Isaiah 13:12; 
Isaiah 43:4 
 
 • Withdraw, 1
 
Proverbs 25:17