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. Ruth 4:4 קְ֠נֵה Ke.neh · A command to you: simple action

    And I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying, Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

  2. Ruth 4:5 קְנוֹתְךָ֥ ke.not.Cha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

  3. Ruth 4:5 קָנִ֔יתָה ka.ni.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

  4. Ruth 4:8 קְנֵה־ ke.neh- · A command to you: simple action

    So the near kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thyself. And he drew off his shoe.

  5. Ruth 4:9 קָנִ֙יתִי֙ ka.Ni.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.

  6. Ruth 4:10 קָנִ֧יתִי ka.Ni.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

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