To buy
זְבַןStrong’s H7666zevan (ze-van)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zevan is the Hebrew word usually translated “buy”, “buy grain” and “bought grain”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- To buy, gain(P'al) gain (participle)
How it's translated
- to buy 4
- to buy grain 3
- buy 2
- buy grain 2
- and he bought grain 1
- and buy grain 1
- the sold grain 1
- and we will buy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 14
- Deuteronomy 2
- Amos 2
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:57And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
- Genesis 42:2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
- Genesis 42:3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
- Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 42:6And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
- Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Hebrew dictionary
זְבַן zevan · to buy
1) to buy, gain 1a) (P'al) gain (participle)
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.