CHAPMAN.A chapman is a trader, the word being still used in some places for a travelling merchant. It occurs in 2Ch_9:14 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and BV, and also in 1Ki_10:15 RV [Note: Revised Version.] . The Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] has trader in both places.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Chapman. (that is, cheap man). Merchant.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
chap?man (plural אנשי התּרים, 'anshē ha-tārı̄m): Word used only once in the King James Version (2Ch_9:14, the American Standard Revised Version ?the traders?; compare also 1Ki_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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Chapman
(אנֵוֹשׁ הִתּוּר, enosh´ hat-tur´, man of the journeying, traveler, i.e. for purposes of traffic), a trader who transports articles of commerce from the place of production to a mart (2Ch_9:14); a merchant-man, as the same phrase is rendered in the parallel passage (1Ki_10:15). SEE MERCHANT.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.