| Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TRAFFIC, TRAFFICKER traf'-ik, traf'-ik-er (kena`-an, micchar, cachar, rekhullah):
(1) Kena`an = "Canaan," and, as the Canaanites were celebrated merchants, came to mean "merchant," and so "traffic" (see CANAAN). Ezekiel 17:4 refers to the great eagle who "cropped off the topmost of the young twigs (of cedar) thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants."
(2) Micchar means "trade," and so "traffic"; comes from a root meaning "to travel round," e.g. as a peddler. 1 Kings 10:15 reads: "Besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants." This refers to the income of Solomon.
(3) Cachar means "to go about," "occupy with," "trade," "traffic," "merchant," and so the business of the moving merchant or peddler. Joseph said to his brothers: "So will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land" (Genesis 42:34). He evidently meant that they should have license to become, throughout Egypt, traveling traders.
(4) Rekhullah, from a root meaning "to travel for trading," and so a peddled traffic, as in spices, etc. Ezekiel speaks against the prince of Tyre: "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches" (28:5); and against the king of Tyre: "in the unrighteousness of thy traffic," etc. (Ezekiel 28:18).
See MARKET; MERCHANDISE; SHIPS AND BOATS, II, 2, (2); TRADE.
William Edward Raffety |  | Multi-Version Concordance Trafficker (3 Occurrences) Ezekiel 27:20 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding. (WEB JPS ASV DBY) Hosea 12:7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. (See JPS ASV) Zechariah 14:21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts. (See JPS) |