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Strong H7069קָנָה

to buy

Transliteration
qânâh
Pronunciation
kaw-naw'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to {erect} that {is} create; by extension to {procure} especially by purchase (causatively sell); by implication to own: - {attain} buy ({-er}) teach to keep {cattle} {get} provoke to {jealousy} possess ({-or}) {purchase} {recover} {redeem} X {surely} X verily.

Detailed definition

1) to get, acquire, create, buy, possess
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to get, acquire, obtain
1a1a) of God originating, creating, redeeming His people
1a1a1) possessor
1a1b) of Eve acquiring
1a1c) of acquiring knowledge, wisdom
1a2) to buy
1b) (Niphal) to be bought
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to possess
Aramaic equivalent: qe.na (קְנָא "to buy" H7066)

In the Bible

Strong H7069 appears in 76 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • buy41
  • get10
  • purchase5
  • getteth3
  • possess3
  • possessor3
  • buyer2
  • nay2
  • attain1
  • bought1
  • buyest1
  • jealousy1

First verses

  1. Genesis 4:1
    And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
  2. Genesis 14:19
    And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
  3. Genesis 14:22
    And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
  4. Genesis 25:10
    The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  5. Genesis 33:19
    And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
  6. Genesis 39:1
    And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
  7. Genesis 47:19
    Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
  8. Genesis 47:20
    And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
  9. Genesis 47:22
    Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
  10. Genesis 47:23
    Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
  11. Genesis 49:30
    In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
  12. Genesis 50:13
    For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
  13. Exodus 15:16
    Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
  14. Exodus 21:2
    If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
  15. Leviticus 22:11
    But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
  16. Leviticus 25:14
    And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
  17. Leviticus 25:15
    According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
  18. Leviticus 25:28
    But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
  19. Leviticus 25:30
    And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
  20. Leviticus 25:44
    Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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