Word

מִקְנֶה

miqneh · H4735 · Hebrew · 76 occurrences

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Thing

Domestic animals, cattle, livestock, animal, living beingAnimals, general79 verses

Meanings

possession

An animate or inanimate object acquired by humans by means of a financial transaction or in another way

Examples
Genesis 49:32 the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth.”
Job 1:3 His possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Job 1:10 “Have You not made a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
livestock

Literally: possession; hence: domestic animals as human possessions, such as herds, flocks, camels, donkeys, etc

Examples
Genesis 4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and have livestock.
Genesis 13:2 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
Genesis 13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.

How it’s used In 8 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

53 occurrences in 18 groups

הֶםtheir 14
הוּhis 8
ךָyour 5
כֶםyour 5
בָּקָרcattle, oxen 3
צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

8 occurrences in 5 groups

רַבmany, great 4
הוּאhe, she, it 1
כָּבֵדheavy 1
רָכַשׁto acquire 1
שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 6 groups

צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 3
בָּקָרcattle, oxen 2
גָּמָלcamel 1
זָכָרmale, man 1
חֲמוֹרdonkey 1
פֶּטֶרfirstborn 1

What it doesIt is the subject

17 occurrences in 9 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 8
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

What is done to itIt is the object

18 occurrences in 14 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 4
Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

What it is said to bePredicate

4 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 1
אָדוֹןlord 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
כֶםyou 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

15 occurrences in 5 groups

בin/on/with 9
לto/for 5
מִןfrom 4
אֵתwith 2
בֵּיןbetween, among 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

14 occurrences in 10 groups

Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

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

κτῆνος ktēnos · G2934 · beast of burden, riding animal, cattle: Greek κτῆνος denotes domesticated animals as property/livestock, directly equivalent to Hebrew מִקְנֶה in its primary livestock sense ('cattle, flock, herd'), though the Hebrew term has broader semantic range including abstract 'possession/substance' that κτῆνος does not carry.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Possess002003002019: The word denotes cattle, flocks, or possessions more broadly, as livestock that constitute a person's wealth and substance.
Domestic Animals001001002002: The word most directly denotes livestock such as cattle, flocks, and herds, domesticated animals kept for their owner's benefit.

Word family 6 words

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

קָנָה qânâh · H7069 · to acquire, to obtain, to purchase · 84×מִקְנֶהmiqneh · H4735קָנֶה qâneh · H7070 · reed, fragrant grass, calamus · 62×מִקְנָה miqnâh · H4736 · purchase, possession · 15×קִנְיָן qinyân · H7075 · possessions, goods, creature (of God) · 10×קְנָא qᵉnâʼ · H7066 · buy · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4735. miqneh מִקְנֶה76 noun masculineExo 10:26 cattle; — absolute ׳מ Gen 46:32 +;…

H4735. miqneh
מִקְנֶה76 noun masculineExo 10:26 cattle; — absolute ׳מ Gen 46:32 +; construct מִקְנֵה Gen 13:7 +; suffix מִקְנֵהוּ Gen 3:18 +, מִקְנֶיךָ Isa 30:23 (Ges§ 93, 88), etc.; plural suffix (but see Köii. 112 f.) מִקְנַי Exo 17:3 +, מִקְנֵיכֶם Gen 47:16 +, etc.; —
1 cattle in General, including cows, sheep, horses, asses, camels (any or all of them), as purchasable domestic animals, Gen 47:16 (twice in verse); Gen 47:17 (twice in verse); Exo 9:3 + (J), Exo 10:26 (E), Deu 3:19 (not in P), Job 1:3; Psa 78:48; Jer 9:9; 1Ch 5:21+; so probably וּמִקְנֶה אֹהֶל ישֵׁב Gen 4:20 (J) of nomads, הַבְּהֵמָה מִקְנֵה Gen 47:18 (J).
2 specifically of cows, sheep, and goats in herds and flocks Gen 13:2 (J), Gen 31:9 (E), Gen 31:18; Gen 36:7; Gen 46:6; Num 32:1 (all P), Isa 30:23 +; מ ׳רֹעֵי Gen 46:32, Gen 46:34 (J), מ ׳שָׂרֵי Gen 47:6 (P), compare 1Ch 28:1; מ ׳רֹקעי Gen 13:7 (twice in verse) (J); distinguished from בְּהֵמָה Num 31:9 (P), Num 32:26; 2Ki 3:17; from קנין Jos 14:4 (P) Eze 38:12-13, from both Gen 34:23; Gen 36:6 (P); ׳מָ ונקר צאן2Ch 32:29 ׳מ וצאן בקר Ecc 2:7 ׳מ ומ ׳צאן בקר Gen 26:14; Gen 47:17 (J); sheep only Gen 29:7 (J) Num 32:16 (E). — הַשָּׂדֶה מִקְנֵה Gen 49:32 (P) read מִקְנַת; עוֺלֶךְ על אַף מִקְנֶה Job 36:33 read מַקְנֶה (
Hiph`ilParticiple), or מְקַנֶּךְ (
Pi`elParticiple) metal. from קנא, Hi Bö Di Du; 1Sa 30:20 del ᵐ5 ׳הַמּ We Dr and others, see especially HPS.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Domestic Animals71 occurrences Possess4 occurrences

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