Acquisition
מֶ֫שֶׁקStrong’s H4943mesheq (me-sheq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mesheq is the Hebrew word usually translated “acquisition of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”
Meaning
- Acquisition, possession, son of possession, heir
How it's translated
- acquisition of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מֶ֫שֶׁק mesheq · acquisition
acquisition, possession, son of possession, heir
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “acquisition” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ACQUISI'TION, noun
[Latin acquisitio, from acquisitus, acquaesivi, which are given as the part. and preterit tense of acquiro; but quaesivi is probably from a different root.]
- The act of acquiring; as, a man takes pleasure inthe acquisition of property, as well as in the prosession.
- The thing acquired, or gained; as, learning is an acquisition It is used for intellectual attainments, as well as for external things, property, or dominion; and in a good sense, denoting something estimable.
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.