Hebrew verb · H2596
חָנַךְ
chanakkhaw-nak'
to dedicate
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chânak
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2596is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2596
properly, to narrow; figuratively, to initiate or discipline
The King James renders it: dedicate, train up.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chanak is rendered "to dedicate". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 20:5Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:5חֲנָכ֔וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they dedicated2
- he has dedicated it1
- he will dedicate it1
- train1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙2
- חֲנֹ֣ךְ1
- חֲנָכ֔וֹ1
- יַחְנְכֶֽנּוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqv2ms
Deuteronomy
two uses
Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
- חֲנָכ֔וֹchanakhoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has dedicated it
- יַחְנְכֶֽנּוּ׃yachnekhenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will dedicate it
1 Kings
one use
And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
- וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙vaiyachnekhuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they dedicated
2 Chronicles
one use
And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
- וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙vaiyachnekhuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they dedicated
Proverbs
one use
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- חֲנֹ֣ךְchanokhverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: train
The letters
Gematria 78· 558 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.