קָנָה (qa.nah) means “to buy” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kaw-naw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
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)
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a primitive root; to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
KJV glosses: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, [idiom] surely, [idiom] verily.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| acquire | 3 |
| buy | 3 |
| to buy | 3 |
| and buy | 2 |
| buy it | 2 |
| creator | 2 |
| get | 2 |
| had purchased | 2 |
| i have acquired | 2 |
| i insist on paying | 2 |
| so i bought | 2 |
| you buy | 2 |
| a purchase | 1 |
| acquired | 1 |
| acquires | 1 |
| and creator | 1 |
| be bought | 1 |
| bought | 1 |
| bought him | 1 |
| buyer | 1 |
| buyers | 1 |
| buys | 1 |
| created me | 1 |
| formed | 1 |
| gain | 1 |
| gains | 1 |
| had acquired | 1 |
| had bought | 1 |
| he bought | 1 |
| he had bought | 1 |
| he purchased | 1 |
| he who acquires | 1 |
| his purchaser | 1 |
| i acquired | 1 |
| i am buying | 1 |
| i have brought forth | 1 |
| i was purchased as a servant | 1 |
| invest in | 1 |
| it was bought | 1 |
| its owner | 1 |
| let the buyer | 1 |
| let us buy | 1 |
| of buying | 1 |
| of the buyer | 1 |
| one will buy you | 1 |
| purchase | 1 |
| purchase them | 1 |
| purchased | 1 |
| so acquire | 1 |
| the buyer | 1 |
| they also purchased | 1 |
| to acquire | 1 |
| to buy back | 1 |
| to buy it | 1 |
| to gain | 1 |
| to recover | 1 |
| transferred to its buyer | 1 |
| which you purchased | 1 |
| will be bought | 1 |
| will be purchased | 1 |
| you are to buy | 1 |
| you bought | 1 |
| you have bought | 1 |
| you have not bought | 1 |
| you may buy it back | 1 |
| you may purchase | 1 |
| you must also acquire | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| buy | 9 |
| bought | 6 |
| get | 3 |
| and get | 2 |
| and he bought | 2 |
| and to buy | 2 |
| getteth | 2 |
| thou hast purchased | 2 |
| to buy | 2 |
| to get | 2 |
| among you of them shall ye buy | 1 |
| and i bought | 1 |
| and no man shall buy | 1 |
| and to get | 1 |
| as with the buyer | 1 |
| behold i have bought | 1 |
| bought he | 1 |
| for thou hast possessed | 1 |
| had purchased | 1 |
| hath bought | 1 |
| have i purchased | 1 |
| have redeemed | 1 |
| he that getteth | 1 |
| his owner | 1 |
| i got | 1 |
| i have gotten | 1 |
| if thou buy | 1 |
| let not the buyer | 1 |
| men shall buy | 1 |
| nay but i will surely | 1 |
| nay but i will verily | 1 |
| neither bought | 1 |
| of him that hath bought | 1 |
| or buyest | 1 |
| possessed | 1 |
| possessor | 1 |
| purchased | 1 |
| shall attain | 1 |
| shall be bought | 1 |
| shall be possessed again | 1 |
| so i got | 1 |
| taught me to keep cattle | 1 |
| that i have bought | 1 |
| that thou hast got | 1 |
| that we may buy | 1 |
| the buyer | 1 |
| the possessor | 1 |
| thine buy | 1 |
| thine to buy | 1 |
| thou buyest | 1 |
| thou hast bought | 1 |
| thou must buy | 1 |
| thou shalt buy | 1 |
| to him that bought | 1 |
| to recover | 1 |
| unto him of whom it was bought | 1 |
| unto me buy | 1 |
| which he had bought | 1 |
| which provoketh to jealousy | 1 |
| whose possessors | 1 |
| with him that bought | 1 |
| you of them shall ye buy | 1 |
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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.
Read word by wordand he blessed Abram and said: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
Read word by wordBut Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
Read word by wordThis was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, 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.
Read word by wordWhy 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.”
Read word by wordSo 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,
Read word by wordHowever, 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordThey 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.
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordIf you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordYour menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordIn the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
Read word by wordThe 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.”
Read word by wordIs 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?
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordSo the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”
Read word by wordAt 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.
Read word by wordMoreover, 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.”
Read word by wordbut 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.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordmasons, 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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.13
to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordThey 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.
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordInstead, 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.
Read word by wordRemember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
Read word by wordHe brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
Read word by wordFor You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Read word by wordlet the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
Read word by wordGet wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
Read word by wordWisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
Read word by wordThe LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
Read word by wordHe who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
Read word by wordHow much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
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