To dedicate
חָנַךְStrong’s H2596chanakh (cha-nakh)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chanakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “dedicated”, “has dedicated it” and “dedicate it”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.”
Meaning
- To train, dedicate, inaugurate(Qal)
How it's translated
- and they dedicated 2
- he has dedicated it 1
- he will dedicate it 1
- train 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 8:63And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 7:5And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
- Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Hebrew dictionary
חָנַךְ chanakh · to dedicate
1) to train, dedicate, inaugurate 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to train, train up 1a2) to dedicate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dedicate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEDICATE, verb transitive
[Latin To vow, promise, devote, dedicate See Class Dg. No. 12, 15, 45. The sense is to send, to throw; hence, to set, to appoint.]
- To set apart and consecrate to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; to devote to a sacred use, by a solemn act, or by religious ceremonies; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, an altar, or a church, to God or to a religious use.
- To appropriate solemnly to any person or purpose; to give wholly or chiefly to.
- To inscribe or address to a patron; as, to dedicate a book.
All definitions and other forms of “dedicate”
DEDICATE, adjective
Consecrated; devoted; appropriated.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.