ra.khal denotes a trader or trading party, including peoples and cities identified through commercial exchange.

The attested forms consistently identify people, groups, or a city in relation to commercial exchange: named peoples supply goods, merchants are located near Jerusalem, and Tyre is addressed as dealing with many coastlands.

1. Trader or trading party · dominant

   The Qal active participles designate those involved in exchange: in Ezekiel 27:13 the APB renders Javan, Tubal, and Meshech as "your traders" while listing people and bronze as merchandise, and Ezekiel 27:22 names traders dealing in spices, precious stones, and gold. The singular feminine participle in Ezekiel 27:3 characterizes Tyre in a clause the APB renders "trader of the peoples to many coastlands," while Nehemiah 13:20 places merchants and sellers of goods outside Jerusalem.

   Ezekiel 27:13Ezekiel 27:22Ezekiel 27:3Nehemiah 13:201 Kings 10:15Song of Songs 3:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the participles as "traders," with singular "trader" for a single party and "merchant" or "merchants" in some settings. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the commercial setting without fixing every English equivalent to an individual form.