This Eng. word is now used only of a trading vessel. In AV it means 'merchant, tradesman'; it occurs in Ge 37:28; 1Ki 10:15; Mt 13:46. In each case the earliest editions of AV have two separate words.
Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.
and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
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