me.chir denotes the payment or compensation attached to acquiring, selling, or providing something, including when no payment is made.

The attested use concerns payment, compensation, or an amount assigned in exchange: it accompanies purchases of horses, land, and goods, and also marks service or release done without payment. The supplied verses also use it in settings of valuation, such as wisdom, a field, and a prophet's teaching.

1. Payment or compensation in exchange · dominant

   The noun marks an amount connected with obtaining or providing something: in 1 Kings 10:28 the APB renders the merchants' procurement of horses "at a price," and in 2 Samuel 24:24 it renders David's purchase "at a price" and "without cost." In 1 Kings 21:2, the construct form occurs in Ahab's offer of silver for Naboth's vineyard; Proverbs 27:26 likewise places the construct form with goats and "the price of a field." The same exchange setting appears where priests teach and prophets divine in Micah 3:11, and where a fool has means to buy wisdom in Proverbs 17:16.

   1 Kings 10:282 Samuel 24:241 Kings 21:2Proverbs 27:26Micah 3:11Proverbs 17:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun with "price," including "at a price," while related clauses use "without price," "without cost," or "reward." Its wording confirms the exchange setting without assigning every English expression directly to the noun.