Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4736
מִקְנָה
miqnahmik-naw'
purchase
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: miqnâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4736is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4736
properly, a buying, i.e. acquisition; concretely, a piece of property (land or living); also the sum paid
The King James renders it: (he that is) bought, possession, piece, purchase.
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
miqnah is rendered "purchase". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 17:12Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
Genesis 17:12וּמִקְנַת־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fifteen uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the purchase5
- and a purchase of2
- purchase his2
- purchase of2
- purchase price its2
- and purchase of1
- to a possession1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִקְנֶה | miqneh | livestock | Uses76 |
| מִקְדָּשׁ | miqdash | sanctuary | Uses75 |
| מִקְרָא | miqra | assembly | Uses23 |
| מִקְלָט | miqlat | refuge | Uses20 |
| מִקְרֶה | miqreh | accident | Uses10 |
| מִקְשָׁה | miqshah | beating | Uses9 |
| מִקְלַעַת | miqlaath | engraving | Uses4 |
| מִקְסָם | miqsam | divination | Uses2 |
| מִקְשָׁה | miqshah | cucumber field | Uses2 |
| מִקְטֶרֶת | miqtereth | censer | Uses2 |
| מִקְוָה | miqvah | reservoir | Uses1 |
| מִקְטָר | miqtar | fumigation | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- הַמִּקְנָ֑ה2
- וּמִקְנַת־2
- מִקְנָת֔וֹ2
- הַמִּקְנָ֗ה1
- הַמִּקְנָ֨ה1
- הַמִּקְנָ֔ה1
- וּמִקְנַ֣ת1
- לְמִקְנָ֖ה1
- מִקְנַ֣ת1
- מִקְנַת־1
- מִקְנָת֑וֹ1
- מִקְנָתֽוֹ׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HC/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
five uses
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
- וּמִקְנַת־umiknat-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a purchase of
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
- וּמִקְנַ֣תumiknatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and purchase of
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
- מִקְנַ֣תmiknatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: purchase of
And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
- וּמִקְנַת־umiknat-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a purchase of
to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
- לְמִקְנָ֖הlemiknahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a possession
Exodus
one use
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- מִקְנַת־miknat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: purchase of
Leviticus
four uses
You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
- מִקְנָת֔וֹmiknatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: purchase price its
- מִקְנָת֑וֹmiknatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: purchase price its
If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
- מִקְנָתֽוֹ׃miknatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: purchase his
Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,
- מִקְנָת֔וֹmiknatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: purchase his
Jeremiah
five uses
Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—
- הַמִּקְנָ֑הhamiknahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the purchase
and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- הַמִּקְנָ֗הhamiknahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the purchase
- הַמִּקְנָ֑הhamiknahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the purchase
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
- הַמִּקְנָ֨הhamiknahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the purchase
After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
- הַמִּקְנָ֔הhamiknahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the purchase
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.