mim.kar denotes a sale, especially the disposal and possible redemption of property, and can also refer to goods offered for trade.

The term most often concerns a sale involving property or a person’s status, particularly where its value, return, or redemption is addressed. In a commercial setting, it also occurs in a clause about sellers and goods.

1. Sale subject to return or redemption · dominant

   In Leviticus 25:25, Leviticus 25:27, and Leviticus 25:28, the construct forms occur in clauses about a poor man’s possession being sold, the years being computed, and the property remaining with its buyer until jubilee. Leviticus 25:29, Leviticus 25:33, and Leviticus 25:50 likewise place the sale in arrangements for redemption, release, or calculation; in Deuteronomy 18:8 the APB renders a clause about what is received from the sale of ancestral property.

   Leviticus 25:25Leviticus 25:27Leviticus 25:28Leviticus 25:29Leviticus 25:33Leviticus 25:50
2. Commercial goods or trade · rare

   In Nehemiah 13:20, the absolute form occurs in the clause concerning merchants and sellers outside Jerusalem; the APB describes them as sellers of every kind of goods. This setting supports a commercial use alongside the property-sale contexts.

   Nehemiah 13:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term’s context with “sale,” “sold,” and “what was sold,” especially in the property and redemption clauses. In Nehemiah 13:20 it instead describes “sellers of every kind of goods”; This variation should not be treated as a precise lexical equivalence.