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Purchase

מִקְנָהStrong’s H4736

miqnah (miq-nah)

Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Miqnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “purchase”, “purchase of” and “purchase price its”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.”
Genesis 17:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Purchasepurchase-price · possession (gained by purchase)
How it's translated
  • the purchase 5
  • and a purchase of 2
  • purchase of 2
  • purchase price its 2
  • purchase his 2
  • and purchase of 1
  • to a possession 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 5
  • Jeremiah 4
  • Leviticus 3
  • Exodus 1

4 books in all.

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Exodus 1
12:44
Leviticus 3
25:1625:5127:22
Hebrew dictionary

מִקְנָה miqnah · purchase

1) purchase 1a) purchase 1b) purchase-price 1c) possession (gained by purchase)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “purchase” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PUR'CHASE, verb transitive

[This word seems to be considered by Blackstone as formed from the Latin perquisitio. This is an error. The word is from the root of chase; purchaser is to pursue to the end or object, and hence to obtain. In Law Latin, purchase the noun, was written purchacium. The legal use of the word in obtaining writs, shows best its true origin; to purchase a writ, is to sue out a writ, that is, to seek it out; for sue, seek, and Latin sequor, are all of one origin, and synonymous with chase.]

  1. In its primary and legal sense, to gain, obtain or acquire by any means, except by descent or hereditary right.
  2. In common usage, to buy; to obtain property by paying an equivalent in money.
  3. To obtain by an expense of labor, danger or other sacrifice; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
  4. To expiate or recompense by a fine or forfeit; as, to purchase out abuses with tears and prayer.
All definitions and other forms of “purchase”
  1. To sue out or procure, as a writ.

PUR'CHASE, verb intransitive

In seaman's language, to draw in; as, the capstern purchases apace, that is, it draws in the cable apace, it gains it.

    PUR'CHASE, noun

    1. In law, the act of obtaining or acquiring the title to lands and tenements by money, deed, gift or any means, except by descent; the acquisition of lands and tenements by a man's own act or agreement.
    2. In law, the suing out and obtaining a writ.
    3. In common usage, the acquisition of the title or property of any thing by rendering an equivalent in money.
    4. That which is purchased; any thing of which the property is obtained by giving an equivalent price in money.
    5. That which is obtained by labor, danger, art, etc.
    6. Formerly, robbery, and the thing stolen.
    7. Any mechanical power or force applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies.

    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.