merchant

«merchant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a person who buys and sells goods to make money, a trader — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (merchant, merchants); adjective (merchant ship, merchant navy)

meaning for a pupil

1) A merchant is a person who buys and sells goods to make money, a trader. tree →

2) In old times merchants sailed or travelled far to trade cloth, spices and gold. tree →

3) A merchant ship carries goods for trade, not soldiers. tree →

sense in the lessons

a person who buys, sells, makes profit or loss; prices and amounts of goods; in history and stories merchants travel, trade and get rich or lose everything; in everyday life we say shopkeeper or seller more often

examples

• And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. (Torah GEN.23.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• Will they part him among the merchants? (Writings JOB.40.30, JPS 1917) tree →
• She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar. (Writings PRO.31.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. (Writings PRO.31.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• A merchant buys 20 bags of rice for 5 dollars each. tree →
• He sells them for 7 dollars each. tree →
• What is his profit? tree →
• The merchant has 300 metres of cloth. tree →
• Merchants carried silk and spices along long roads. tree →
• The merchant ship sailed into the harbour. tree →
• In the story, a poor boy became a rich merchant. tree →
• The merchant weighed the tea on his scales. tree →
• The merchants considered for some time. tree →

note

A seller: profit = selling price minus cost price, × number of items. Trap: the profit on each bag is the difference, not the selling price. If he sells for less than he paid, it is a loss.

In the corpora

• Who hath devised this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
• The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and never shalt be any more.'
• Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.
• She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
• She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «merchant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.