Sale
King James Dictionary [1]
SALE, n. The primary sense of sell, is simply to deliver or cause to pass from one person to another.
1. The act of selling the exchange of a commodity for money of equivalent value. The exchange of one commodity for another is barter or permutation, and sale differs from barter only in the nature of the equivalent given. 2. Vent power of selling market. He went to market, but found no sale for his goods. 3. Auction public sale to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market. Little used. 4. State of being venal, or of being offered to bribery as, to set the liberty of a state to sale. 5. A wicker basket.
SALE, a. Sold bought as opposed to homemade. Colloquial.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.
(2): ( v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
(3): ( n.) See 1st Sallow.
(4): ( v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
sāl ( ממכּר , mimkār ): The word is used: (1) in the sense of the transaction ( Leviticus 25:50 ); (2) in the sense of the limit of time involved in the transaction ( Leviticus 25:27 ); (3) in the sense of the price paid in the transaction ( Deuteronomy 18:8 ), though it may be the same as (1) above.
