Word

מִקְנָה

miqnâh · H4736 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

purchase

Action by which humans acquire an animate or inanimate object by means of a financial transaction or in another way

Examples
Genesis 17:12 “And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, including a slave who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.
Genesis 17:13 “A slave who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall certainly be circumcised; so My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the slaves who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on this very same day, as God had said to him.
possession

An object that is acquired, whether by means of a financial transaction or in another way

Examples
Genesis 23:18 to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who entered the gate of his city.
price

The amount of money expected, required in payment for something

Examples
Leviticus 25:16 ‘In proportion to a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you.

How it’s used In 6 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

9 occurrences in 2 groups

כֶּסֶףsilver 5
הוּhis 4

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 3 groups

זָכָרmale, man 2
אִישׁman, person, each 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מוּלto circumcise 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
מָעַטto become few 1
רָבָהto increase 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 3 groups

סֵפֶרbook, scroll, letter 5
כֶּסֶףsilver 1
שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Possess002003002019: The word denotes a purchase or something bought, as a slave acquired with money and thereby made part of a household's possessions.
Objects001: The word can denote the purchased item itself, a physical piece or object acquired through a transaction.

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×מִקְנֶה miqneh · H4735 · possession, livestock · 76×קָנֶה qâneh · H7070 · reed, fragrant grass, calamus · 62×מִקְנָהmiqnâh · H4736קִנְיָן qinyân · H7075 · possessions, goods, creature (of God) · 10×קְנָא qᵉnâʼ · H7066 · buy · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4736. miqnah מִקְנָה noun feminine purahase; — absolute ׳מ Gen 23:18 +; construct…

H4736. miqnah
מִקְנָה noun feminine purahase; — absolute ׳מ Gen 23:18 +; construct מִפְנַת Gen 17:12 +; suffix מִקְנָתוֺ Lev 25:16 +; —
1 purchase, כֶּסֶף מִקְנַת Gen 17:12-13, Gen 17:23, Gen 17:27; Exo 12:44 (all P); הַמּ ׳סֵפֶר document of purchase Jer 32:11-12, (twice in verse); Jer 32:14, Jer 32:16.
2 purchase-price, Lev 25:16 (twice in verse); Lev 25:51; Lev 27:22 (P).
3 possession (gained by purchase), לְמִקְנָה Gen 23:18 (P).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Objects4 occurrences Possess11 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