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    Mercer

    MER-ser

    Meaning

    Merchant; Trader

    English/French origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Mercer seeks the pearl of great price — selling all, buying the kingdom, candle burning through the night, the merchant who found everything.

    Verses · King James Version

    “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”

    Matthew 13:45-46

    “She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.”

    Proverbs 31:18

    Most used in the 1880s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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