STRONGS NUMBER H4378

H4378. makkar

[מַכָּר‎] noun masculine acquaintance, friend (dubious, compare Benz^{on the passage}); — suffix מַכָּרוֺ‎ 2 Kings 12:6; plural suffix מַכָּרֵיכֶם‎ v.12:8.

II. נכר‎ (√ of following, possibly = I. נכר‎, whence the foreign, strange, as that which is intently regarded, so Thes, but precarious; compare Assyrian nakâru, rebel, Pa`el change, nakiru, and nakaru, enemy, nukurtu, enmity, etc.; ** be ignorant of, Qor 11:73; II. change, alter, so as not to be known, disguise Qor 27:41; IV=I, also deny, Qor 16:85 repudiate. Arabic in sense be bad, evil; II. change, alter a thing; Sabean נכר‎ II. reject, injure, etc., נכרם‎ injury SabDenkm⁷⁶ CIS^{iv. 81. 9; 29. 5}; Minaean נכר‎ alter Hom^{Südarab. Chrest. 128}; Syriac reject, alienus, etc.; ** reject is rare (twice), and PS properly alienavit each time. נוּכְרַי ᵑ7‎ strange, foreign).