To buy
זְבַןStrong’s H2084zevan (ze-van)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zevan is the Aramaic word usually translated “gaining”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.”
Meaning
- To buy, gain(P'al) gain (participle)
How it's translated
- gaining 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
זְבַן zevan · to buy
1) to buy, gain 1a) (P'al) gain (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “buy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUY, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive bought. pronoun bawt.]
- To acquire the property, right or title to any thing, by paying a consideration or an equivalent in money.
- To procure by a consideration given, or by something that is deemed worth the thing bought; to procure at a price; as, to buy pleasure with praise; to buy favor with flattery.
- To bribe; to corrupt or pervert the judgment, by paying a consideration.
- To purchase the share or shares of a person in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place, as, A buys out B.
All definitions and other forms of “buy”
BUY, verb intransitive
To negotiate, or treat about a purchase.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.