Acquisition
קִנְיָןStrong’s H7075qinyan (qin-yan)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qinyan is the Hebrew word usually translated “possession his”, “possession” and “acquisition his”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.”
Meaning
- Thing acquired, acquisition, possession, purchased property, wealththing acquired (by purchase) · creatures (more general)
How it's translated
- possession his 2
- and possession 2
- acquisition his 1
- and possession their 1
- acquisition of 1
- and for possession their 1
- creature your 1
- acquisition your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Psalms 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- Joshua 1
- Proverbs 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 34:23Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
- Genesis 36:6And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
- Leviticus 22:11But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
- Joshua 14:4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
- Psalms 104:24O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- Psalms 105:21He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
Hebrew dictionary
קִנְיָן qinyan · acquisition
1) thing acquired, acquisition, possession, purchased property, wealth 1a) thing acquired (by purchase) 1b) creatures (more general)
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.