Lexicon qanah: to get, acquire Original Word: קָנָהPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: qanah Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-naw') Short Definition: buy NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto get, acquire NASB Translationacquire (6), acquired (1), acquires (2), bought (20), buy (23), buyer (4), buying (2), buys (1), formed (1), gain acquisition (1), gained (1), get (3), gets (1), gotten (1), owner (1), possessed (1), possessor (2), purchased (3), purchaser (3), recover (1), redeemed (1), sold (1), surely buy (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. קָנָה84 verb get, acquire (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician (Punic) מקנא, property [in cattle]; Assyrian ‡anû, gain, acquire, Meissn Suppl. 85; Arabic  (  ,  ) acquire, procure; Sabean קני acquire, possess, CIS iv,no.89,5.6, קני noun property Id ib,no.3,8,29,3; Ethiopic acquire, subjugate; Aramaic קְנָא,  ( accquire); — Qal81 Perfect3masculine singular ׳ק Genesis 25:10 +; suffix קֶָ נ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 32:6, קָנָהוּ Leviticus 27:24; 3feminine singularקָֽנְתָה Psalm 78:54; 2masculine singular קָנִיתָ Exodus 15:16 +, etc.; Imperfect3masculine 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 q. v.). 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. 2 elsewhere buy Exodus 21:2 (E), Genesis 47:22 (J), Genesis 50:13 (P), Leviticus 27:24(H), Deuteronomy 28:68; Isaiah 24:2; Jeremiah 13:1; Ezekiel 7:12; Proverbs 20:14 +; קֹנֶה owner, as purchaser Leviticus 25:30 (P) Isaiah 1:3; Zechariah 11:5 +. Niph`al be bought: Perfect3masculine singular נִקְנָה Jeremiah 32:43; Imperfect3masculine plural יִקָּנוּ Jeremiah 32:15. Hiph`il Perfect3masculine 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 קִנְיָנִי — Participle מַקְנֶה see קנא.
Strong's attain, buyer, teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possessor, purchase 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, X surely, X verily. |
