איכר

Either borrowed from Aramaic אִכָּרָא (“farmer”) or Akkadian 𒇽𒀳 (ikkarum); compare also Classical Syriac ܐܟܪܐ (ʾakkārā).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /iˈkaʁ/

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• Homophones: עיקר / עִקָּר, אִיקַר

איכר / אִכָּר • (ikár) m (plural indefinite איכרים / אִכָּרִים, singular construct איכר / אִכַּר־, plural construct איכרי / אִכָּרֵי־, feminine counterpart איכרה / אִכָּרָה)

1. farmer, husbandman
   • Tanach, Jeremiah 51:23a, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     נִפַּצְתִּי בְךָ רֹעֶה וְעֶדְרוֹ וְנִפַּצְתִּי בְךָ אִכָּר וְצִמְדּוֹ

     And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock, and with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen.

   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah. Arachin, section 6.3:

     רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אִם הָיָה אִכָּר, נוֹתְנִין לוֹ אֶת צִמְדּוֹ.

     Rabbi Eliezer says: if he was a farmer, they leave him his yoke [of oxen].

2. (historical) peasant

• H406 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “אִכָּר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 27c
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 48a
• “אכר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• "איכר" in the Noun Declension Tables of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• איכר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he