H406 - אִכָּר (ʼikkâr)

H406 אִכָּר (ʼikkâr) ik-kawr'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

farmer

Strong's Definition

a farmer

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to dig;

KJV Usage: husbandman, ploughman.

TWOT Reference: 88a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) plowman, husbandman, farmer

1a) working the land, yet not owning any of it

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1092

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) plowman, husbandman, farmer 1a) working the land, yet not owning any of it

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אִכָּר ikkâr BDB Definition: 1) plowman, husbandman, farmer 1a) working the land, yet not owning any of it Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to dig Same Word by TWOT Number: 88a Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (7)

26:10

61:5

14:4 31:24 51:23

1:11

5:16

2 Chronicles 26:10

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners... will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is cracked because no... rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Jeremiah 31:24

And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in [the land], the farmers and those who move with the flocks,

Jeremiah 51:23

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.

Joel 1:11

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Amos 5:16

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners... to wail.