Word

חָנַךְ

chânak · H2596 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to dedicate

Causative action by which humans make a building or artifact ready for use, usually by a religious ceremony where it is devoted to a deity

Examples
Deuteronomy 20:5 “The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house but has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it.
1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
to train

To make other humans acquainted with a procedure so that they will eventually be able to perform it themselves

Examples
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he grows older he will not abandon it.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 6 groups

מֶלֶךְking 2
בֵּןson 1
אִישׁman, person, each 1
עַםpeople 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 2
וֹhim 2

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ פֶּהmouth 1
לto/for+ נַעַרyoung man, servant, boy 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ἐγκαινίζω enkainízō · G1457 · to put into effect, to put into force, to establish: Greek ἐγκαινίζω is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew חָנַךְ in contexts of dedicating/inaugurating sacred spaces or objects (temple, altar, house); both verbs denote formal consecration or initiation into use, with the Greek term emphasizing the 'making new' aspect of dedication and the Hebrew term's semantic range extending further to include training/educating (a sense ἐγκαινίζω does not carry).

Semantic domains 2 entries

Clean002001001011: The word denotes formally dedicating a structure for its intended use, as in Deuteronomy 20:5's reference to dedicating a newly built house, and 1 Kings 8:63's account of dedicating the temple.
Know002004002007: The word denotes training or instructing someone, as in Proverbs 22:6's counsel to train up a child in the way he should go.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָנַךְchânak · H2596חֲנֻכָּה chănukkâh · H2598 · dedication · 8×חֲנֻכָּא chănukkâʼ · H2597 · dedication · 4×חָנִיךְ chânîyk · H2593 · trained, experienced · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2596. chanak II. חִָנִךְ verb train up, dedicate (compare Arabic apparently denominative…

H2596. chanak
II. חִָנִךְ verb train up, dedicate (compare Arabic apparently denominative from rub palate of child with chewed dates, Lane659a, of midwife rub palate of new-born child with oil, etc., before it begins to suck, Dozyii, 332; also make experienced, submissive, etc. (as one does a horse by a rope in its mouth) Lane; see also WeSkizzen iii, 154; Late Hebrew חִנֵּךְ accustom; Aramaic חֲנַךְ dedicate, חַנֵּיךְ as Late Hebrew; Ethiopic II. perceive, understand (Di108, initiatio is loan-word Id.ib.)) —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular suffix חֲנָכוֺ Deu 20:5; Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יַחְנְכֶנּוּ Deu 20:5, Deu 20:3masculine plural וַיַּחְנְכוּ 1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5; Imperative חֲנֹךְ Pro 22:6; —
1 train, train up a (the) youth (לַנַּעַר) Pro 22:6 (compare Late Hebrew חִנּוּךְ).
2 dedicate, of formal opening of a new house Deu 20:5 (twice in verse); dedicate, consecrate temple 1Ki 8:63 2Ch 7:5 (all followed by accusative)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Clean4 occurrences Know1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0