Lexical Definition

‎רָכַל‎ râkal (raw-kal') to trade ^H:V
a primitive root

(spice) merchant.

• to travel for trading

1) to go about (meaning dubious)
1a) (Qal) trafficker, trader (participle) (subst)

See Greek: ἐμπορεύομαι · ἐμπορία · ἐμπόριον · ἔμπορος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎רָכַל‎] verb probably go about, from one to another (for trade or gossip) (? connected with ‎רגל‎; compare Arabic kick a horse, to make him go [? properly use the foot, compare ?]; Late Hebrew ‎רוֺכֵל‎, Aramaic ‎רוֺכְלָא‎, trader, Late Hebrew ‎רְכִילוּת‎ slander [compare calumniator, from go about, Qor 2:19 and elsewhere]); —

Qal Participle ‎רוֺכֵל‎ Song 3:6 feminine singular construct ‎רֹכֶ֫לֶת‎ Ezek 27:3, suffix ‎רֹכַלְתֵךְ‎ vEzek 27:20 vEzek 27:23 masculine plural ‎רֹכְלִים‎ 1Kgs 10:15 +, etc.; — as substantive = trafficker, trader: usually plural, Nah 3:16; Ezek 17:4 (‎׳‎‎עִיר ר‎), Ezek 27:13; Ezek 27:15; Ezek 27:17; Ezek 27:22 (twice in verse); Ezek 27:23a (< strike out Toy Krae), vEzek 27:24; Neh 3:31; Neh 3:32; Neh 13:20 ( + ‎מֹרֵי כָלמִֿמְכָּר‎); ‎׳‎‎מִסְחַר הָר‎ 1Kgs 10:15 (text dubious; compare ‎׳‎‎מ‎ p.695); singular figurative of Tyre, ‎רֹכֶלֶת הָעַמִּים אֶלאִֿיִּים רַכִּים‎ Ezek 27:8, of a people vEzek 27:20 vEzek 27:23b (plural Mez^{Harran 34} Krae, see also ‎כִּלְמֶד‎); singular of person only ‎אַבְקַת רוֺכֵל‎ Song 3:6.

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