To buy
קְנָאStrong’s H7069qena (qe-na)
Appears in 75 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qena is the Hebrew word usually translated “buy”, “acquire” and “bought”. It appears in 75 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to acquire, buy, purchase
How it's translated
- buy 6
- acquire 6
- you will buy 5
- and he bought 4
- to buy 4
- and to acquire 3
- to acquire 3
- creator of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 12
- Proverbs 11
- Jeremiah 11
- Leviticus 9
- Ruth 5
- Isaiah 4
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 13:5In contextBut he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
- Genesis 4:1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
- Genesis 14:19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
- Genesis 14:22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
- Genesis 25:10The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
- Genesis 33:19And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
All 75 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
קְנָא qena · to buy
(P'al) to acquire, buy, purchase Aramaic of qa.nah (קָנָה "to buy" H7069)
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.