Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. 2. (n.) A peddler; a hawker. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CHAPMAN chap'-man (plural 'anshe ha-tarim): Word used only once in the King James Version (2 Chronicles 9:14, the American Standard Revised Version "the traders"; compare also 1 Kings 10:15 the Revised Version (British and American), where the Hebrew uses the same expression). The English word means "merchant"; compare the verb "to chaffer," and the German Kaufmann. The Hebrew means "those who go about" as merchants.