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Lexicon :: Strong's H7069 - qānâ

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קָנָה
Transliteration
qānâ
Pronunciation
kaw-naw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2039

Strong’s Definitions

קָנָה qânâh, kaw-naw'; a primitive root; to erect, i.e. 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, × surely, × verily.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 84x

The KJV translates Strong's H7069 in the following manner: Buy (46x), get (15x), purchased (5x), buyer (3x), possessor (3x), possessed (2x), owner (1x), recover (1x), redeemed (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 84x
The KJV translates Strong's H7069 in the following manner: Buy (46x), get (15x), purchased (5x), buyer (3x), possessor (3x), possessed (2x), owner (1x), recover (1x), redeemed (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
  1. to get, acquire, create, buy, possess

    1. (Qal)

      1. to get, acquire, obtain

        1. of God originating, creating, redeeming His people

          1. possessor

        2. of Eve acquiring

        3. of acquiring knowledge, wisdom

      2. to buy

    2. (Niphal) to be bought

    3. (Hiphil) to cause to possess

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָנָה qânâh, kaw-naw'; a primitive root; to erect, i.e. 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, × surely, × verily.
STRONGS H7069: Abbreviations
I. קָנָה 84 verb get, acquire (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician (Punic) מקנא, property [in cattle]; Assyrian ḳanû, gain, acquire, MeissnSuppl. 85; Arabic bdb088808 (bdb088809,bdb088810) acquire, procure; Sabean קני acquire, possess, CISiv, no. 89, 5.6, קני noun property Idib, no. 3, 8, 29, 3; Ethiopic bdb088809 acquire, subjugate; Aramaic קְנָא, bdb088811 (accquire); —
Qal81 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ק׳ Genesis 25:10 +; suffix קֶָ נ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 32:6, קָנָהוּ Leviticus 27:24; 3rd person feminine singularקָֽנְתָה Psalm 78:54; 2nd person masculine singular קָנִיתָ Exodus 15:16 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִקְנֶךְ Leviticus 22:11 +, וַיִ֫קֶן Genesis 33:19 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular קְנֵח Genesis 47:19 +; Infinitive absolute קָנֹה Leviticus 25:14; 1 Chronicles 21:24, קָנוֺ 2 Samuel 24:24; cstr. קְנֹה Proverbs 16:16, קְנוֺת Proverbs 16:16 +, etc.; Participle קֹנֶה Deuteronomy 28:68, קְוֺנֶה Proverbs 15:32 +, etc.; —
1. get, acquire (all poetry) :
a. of God as originating, creating, קֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ Genesis 14:19, 22; Deuteronomy 32:6 (Israel), Psalm 139:13 (כִּלְֹיתָ֑י); Proverbs 8:22 (חכמה which see).
b. of God as victoriously redeeming his people Exodus 15:16; Isaiah 11:11; Psalm 74:2 (|| גָּאַל) object הַרוֶֿה Psalm 78:54.
c. of Eve, acquiring קַיִן, אֶתיֿ׳ (i.e. with the help of), Genesis 4:1 (J).
d. of acquiring wisdom, knowledge (only Proverbs): Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 4:5 (twice in verse); Proverbs 4:7 (twice in verse); Proverbs 15:32; Proverbs 16:16 (twice in verse); Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 18:15; Proverbs 19:8; Proverbs 23:23.
Niph. be bought: Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִקְנָה Jeremiah 32:43; Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural יִקָּנוּ Jeremiah 32:15.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix אָדָם חִקְנַנִי Zechariah 13:5; AV makes denominative of מִקְנֶה cattle; Thes RV MartiKau Buhl caused (one) to purchase me, i.e. made me a bondman; < We Now GASm read אֲרָמָה קִנְיָנִיParticiple מַקְנֶה see קנא.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7066.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:1; 14:19; 14:22; 25:10; 33:19; 47:19; 47:22; 50:13

Exodus

15:16; 15:16; 21:2

Leviticus

22:11; 25:14; 25:30; 27:24; 27:24

Deuteronomy

28:68; 28:68; 32:6; 32:6

2 Samuel

24:24

1 Chronicles

21:24

Psalms

74:2; 78:54; 78:54; 139:13

Proverbs

1:5; 4:5; 4:7; 8:22; 15:32; 15:32; 16:16; 16:16; 16:16; 17:16; 18:15; 19:8; 20:14; 23:23

Isaiah

1:3; 11:11; 24:2

Jeremiah

13:1; 32:15; 32:43

Ezekiel

7:12

Zechariah

11:5; 13:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7069 matches the Hebrew קָנָה (qānâ),
which occurs 86 times in 76 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 4:1–Pro 16:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 -

Now the man [fn]knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and [fn]gave birth to [fn]Cain, and she said, “I have gotten H7069 a [fn]man with the help of Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - Then he blessed him and said,

“Blessed be Abram of [fn]God Most High,

[fn]Possessor H7069 of heaven and earth;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - Then Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have [fn]raised my hand to Yahweh [fn]God Most High, [fn]possessor H7069 of heaven and earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field which Abraham bought H7069 from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - Then he bought H7069 a portion of a field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred [fn]qesitah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 -

Now Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian official of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought H7069 him [fn]from the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy H7069 us and our land for [fn]food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 -

So Joseph bought H7069 all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for [fn]every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy H7069, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they ate off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought H7069 you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought H7069 along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial site.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought H7069 along with the field for his possession as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:16 -

“Terror and dread fall upon them;

By the greatness of Your arm they are still as stone;

Until Your people pass over, O Yahweh,

Until the people pass over whom You have purchased H7069.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 -

“If you buy H7069 a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:11 - ‘But if a priest buys H7069 a person as his property with his money, [fn]that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his [fn]food.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - ‘If you make a sale, moreover, to your companion or buy H7069 from your friend’s hand, you shall not mistreat one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - ‘Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy H7069 from your [fn]companion; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of produce.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if [fn]he has not found sufficient means to return it to himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser H7069 until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall [fn]revert, that he may return to his possession of land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - ‘But if it is not redeemed for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser H7069 throughout his generations; it does not [fn]revert in the jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - ‘As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire H7069 male and female slaves from the nations that are around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘And also you may acquire H7069 from the sons of the foreign residents who sojourn among you, from them and their families who are with you; as for those whom they have begotten in your land, they also may become your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘He then with his purchaser H7069 shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - ‘In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought H7069 it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - “And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer H7069.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:6 -

“Do you thus repay Yahweh,

O people who are wickedly foolish and without wisdom?

Is not He your Father who has bought H7069 you?

He has made you and established you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 -

Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought H7069 from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred [fn]qesitah; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - “So I thought to uncover this matter in your hearing, saying, ‘Acquire H7069 it before those who are sitting here and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if no one redeems it, tell me that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.’” And he said, “I will redeem it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire H7069 the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also [fn]acquire H7069 Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the one who had died, in order to raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:8 - So the kinsman redeemer said to Boaz, “Acquire H7069 this for yourself.” And he removed his sandal.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have acquired H7069 all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon from the hand of Naomi.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - “And also, I have acquired H7069 Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance, so that the name of the one who had died will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 -

“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb

Which he bought H7069 and nourished;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It would eat his morsel of bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,

And was like a daughter to him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy H7069 the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be checked from being upon the people.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely H7069 buy H7069 it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God [fn]which cost me nothing.” So David bought H7069 the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty [fn]shekels of silver.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - And he bought H7069 the hill [fn]Samaria from Shemer for two [fn]talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built [fn]Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying H7069 timber and hewn stone to repair the damages to the house of Yahweh, and for all that [fn]was laid out for the house to repair it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6 - to the craftsmen and the builders and the masons and for buying H7069 timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - However, King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely H7069 buy H7069 it for the full price; for I will not lift up what is yours to Yahweh, or offer a burnt offering [fn]which costs me nothing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:11 - They in turn gave it to the craftsmen and to the builders to buy H7069 hewn stone and timber for clamps and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - I said to them, “We, according to our ability, have bought H7069 back our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; and now would you also sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - I also took hold of the work on this wall; we did not buy H7069 any land, and all my young men were gathered there for the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2 -

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased H7069 of old,

Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;

And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54 -

So He brought them to His holy [fn]land,

To this [fn]hill country which His right hand had acquired H7069.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 -

For You formed H7069 my [fn]inward parts;

You wove me in my mother’s womb.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 -

Let the wise man hear and increase in learning,

And a man of understanding will acquire H7069 guidance,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:5 -

Acquire H7069 wisdom! Acquire H7069 understanding!

Do not forget and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:7 -

[fn]The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire H7069 wisdom;

And with all your acquiring, acquire H7069 understanding.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 -

“Yahweh possessed H7069 me at the beginning of His way,

Before His deeds [fn]of old.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:32 -

He who neglects discipline despises his soul,

But he who listens to reproof acquires H7069 a heart of wisdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:16 -

How much better it is to acquire H7069 wisdom than fine gold!

And to acquire H7069 understanding is to be chosen above silver.


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