Hebrew verb · H7069
קָנָה
qanahkaw-naw'
to buy
84 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qânâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7069is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 20 of 39Old Testament books
- 70spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7069
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
The King James renders it: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, [idiom] surely, [idiom] verily.
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
qanah is rendered "to buy". It stands 84 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:1And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
- The Greek text spells it seventy different ways.
The first use
And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
Genesis 4:1קָנִ֥יתִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- acquire6
- buy6
- you will buy5
- and he bought4
- to buy4
- and to acquire3
- to acquire3
- and I bought2
- and you will buy2
- creator of2
- he bought2
- he had acquired2
and 39 more, 84 uses in all
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| קָנָא | qana | be jealous | Uses34 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 84, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
70 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
- קְנֵ֣ה6
- וַיִּ֜קֶן2
- וַיִּ֨קֶן2
- וְלִקְנ֤וֹת2
- לִקְנ֖וֹת2
- קֹנֵ֖ה2
- קְנֵֽה־2
- קְנֵה־2
- קֹנֵ֔הוּ2
- קָנִ֙יתִי֙2
- אֶקְנֶ֤ה1
- אֶקְנֶ֖ה1
and 58 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular12HVqv2ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)6HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular6HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular5HVqp1cs
- Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute3HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HVqrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HC/R/Vqcc
- Hc/Vqq2ms2Hc/Vqq2ms
Genesis
twelve uses
And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
- קָנִ֥יתִיkanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have acquired
and he blessed Abram and said: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- קֹנֵ֖הkonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: creator of
But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- קֹנֵ֖הkonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: creator of
This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- קָנָ֥הkanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had acquired
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- וַיִּ֜קֶןvaiyikenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bought
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- וַיִּקְנֵ֡הוּvaiyiknehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he bought him
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
- קְנֵֽה־keneh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: buy
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
- וַיִּ֨קֶןvaiyikenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bought
However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.
- קָנָ֑הkanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he bought
Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.
- קָנִ֨יתִיkanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have bought
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- קָנָ֨הkanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he bought
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- קָנָה֩kanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had bought
Exodus
two uses
and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
- קָנִֽיתָ׃kanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have bought
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
- תִקְנֶה֙tiknehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will buy
Leviticus
nine uses
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
- יִקְנֶ֥הyiknehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will acquire
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
- קָנֹ֖הkanohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: you will buy
You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
- תִּקְנֶ֖הtiknehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will buy
But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
- הַקֹּנֶ֣הhakonehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the bought
If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
- לַקֹּנֶ֥הlakonehpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to the bought
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
- תִּקְנ֖וּtiknuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will buy
You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
- תִּקְנ֔וּtiknuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will buy
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
- קֹנֵ֔הוּkonehuverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bought him
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
- קָנָ֖הוּkanahuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he bought it
Deuteronomy
two uses
The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- קֹנֶֽה׃ סkonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a buyer
Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- קָּנֶ֔ךָkanechaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he created you
Joshua
one use
And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
- קָנָ֧הkanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had bought
Ruth
six uses
I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.
- קְ֠נֵהkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquire
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
- קְנוֹתְךָ֥kenotchaverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquiring you
- קָנִ֔יתָהkanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have acquired
So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”
- קְנֵה־keneh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquire
At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
- קָנִ֙יתִי֙kanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I acquire
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
- קָנִ֧יתִיkanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I acquire
2 Samuel
five uses
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
- קָנָ֔הkanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had acquired
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
- לִקְנ֧וֹתliknotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- קָנ֨וֹkanoverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to buy
- אֶקְנֶ֤הʾeknehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will buy
- וַיִּ֨קֶןvaiyikenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bought
1 Kings
one use
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
- וַיִּ֜קֶןvaiyikenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bought
2 Kings
two uses
masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.
- וְלִקְנ֤וֹתveliknotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to acquire
to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
- וְלִקְנ֤וֹתveliknotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to acquire
1 Chronicles
two uses
“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
- קָנֹ֥הkanohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to acquire
- אֶקְנֶ֖הʾeknehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will acquire
2 Chronicles
one use
They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.
- לִקְנוֹת֙liknotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
Nehemiah
two uses
and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
- קָ֠נִינוּkaninuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have bought
Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.
- קָנִ֑ינוּkaninuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we acquired
Psalms
three uses
Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.
- קָ֘נִ֤יתָkanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you acquired
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
- קָנְתָ֥הkanetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it had acquired
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
- קָנִ֣יתָkanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you created
Proverbs
fourteen uses
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
- יִקְנֶֽה׃yiknehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let him get
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
- קְנֵ֣הkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquire
- קְנֵ֣הkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquire
Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
- קְנֵ֣הkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquire
- קְנֵ֣הkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: acquire
The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
- קָ֭נָנִיkananiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he created me
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
- ק֣וֹנֶהkonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: acquiring
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
- קְֽנֹה־kenoh-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to acquire
- וּקְנ֥וֹתukenotconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to acquire
Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
- לִקְנ֖וֹתliknotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to acquire
The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
- יִקְנֶה־yikneh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it acquires
He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.
- קֹֽנֶה־koneh-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: acquires
“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.
- הַקּוֹנֶ֑הhakonehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the buyer
Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- קְ֭נֵהkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: buy
Ecclesiastes
one use
I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,
- קָנִ֙יתִי֙kanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I acquired
Isaiah
four uses
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- קֹנֵ֔הוּkonehuverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: owner its
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- לִקְנ֖וֹתliknotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to acquire
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
- כַּקּוֹנֶה֙kakonehpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: as the buyer
You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
- קָנִ֨יתָkanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have bought
Jeremiah
thirteen uses
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
- וְקָנִ֤יתָvekanitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will buy
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
- וָאֶקְנֶ֥הvaeknehHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I bought
“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
- קָנִ֖יתָkanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you bought
This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
- וְקָנִ֥יתָvekanitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will buy
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
- קְנֵ֣הkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: buy
- לִקְנֽוֹת׃liknotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
- קְנֵ֣הkenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: buy
- קְנֵה־keneh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: buy
So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
- וָֽאֶקְנֶה֙vaeknehHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I bought
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
- יִקָּנ֥וּyikanuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be bought
Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
- קְנֵֽה־keneh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: buy
And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
- וְנִקְנָ֥הveniknahHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be bought
Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
- יִקְנ֗וּyiknuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will buy
Ezekiel
one use
The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
- הַקּוֹנֶה֙hakonehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the buyer
Amos
one use
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- לִקְנ֤וֹתliknotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
Zechariah
two uses
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
- קֹנֵיהֶ֤ןkoneihenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: buy them
He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’
- הִקְנַ֥נִיhiknaniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he sold me
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