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Chapman
Open directlySmith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
(i.e. cheap man), merchant.
Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
CHAP'MAN (from the same root as cheap, chop), merchant. 2 Chr 9:14. In the corresponding passage, 1 Kgs 10:15, spice-merchants.
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Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
CHAP'MAN (from the same root as cheap, chop),
merchant. 2 Chr 9:14. In the
corresponding passage, 1 Kgs 10:15, spice-merchants.
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.
2. A peddler; a hawker.