Quick Definition
to buy
Strong's Definition
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, [idiom] surely, [idiom] verily.
TWOT Reference: 2039
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָנָה (qa.nah) — to buy. 1) to get, acquire, create, buy, possess 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to get, acquire, obtain 1a1a) of God originating, creating, redeeming His people 1a1a1) possessor 1a1b) of Eve acquiring 1a1c) of acquiring knowledge, wisdom 1a2) to buy 1b) (Niphal) to be bought 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to possess Aramaic equivalent: qe.na (קְנָא "to buy" H7066)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִקְנֶה · מִקְנָה · קִנְיָן · אֶלְקָנָה · יָקְנְעָם · מִקְנֵיָהוּ
Possess | verb qal, verb nif, verb hif | ≈ גאל | ≠ מכר
to acquire, to obtain, to purchase, to buy, to reclaim = action by which humans acquire an animate or inanimate object ◄ by means of a financial transaction or in another way
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verb
Exist | verb qal
to create, to make, to fashion = causative action by which deities call humans or objects into existence
GEN 14:19 · GEN 14:22 · DEU 32:6 · PSA 139:13 · PRO 8:22
1 RUT 4:5 · RUT 4:5 MT-K 1 sg.; MT-Q 2 sg. 2 ZEC 13:5 MT HOTTP-B; RSV NIV NJB NRSV REB GNT CEV קִנְיָן "possession" or "livelihood"; NJPS "I have been plied"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
קָנָה 84 vb. get, acquire Qal 81 get, acquire (all poet.)
elsewhere buy
Niph. be bought
Hiph. caused (one) to purchase me, i.e. made me a bondman
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