קָנָה

qa.nah · to buy

Hebrew · Strong's H7069 · Verb · Sounds like: kaw-naw' · 84 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

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, [idiom] surely, [idiom] verily.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
קָנָה 84 vb. get, acquire
Qal 81
1. get, acquire (all poet.)
2. elsewhere buy
Niph. be bought
Hiph. caused (one) to purchase me, i.e. made me a bondman

Every occurrence

  1. Nehemiah 5:8 קָ֠נִינוּ Ka.ni.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us

    And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

  2. Nehemiah 5:16 קָנִ֑ינוּ ka.Ni.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us

    Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

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