chap'-man (plural 'anshe ha-tarim): 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.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Chapman
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.