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# מִקְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4736

**purchase** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

purchase [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4736/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְנָה: n.f. purchase [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4736/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. purchase;—abs. מ׳ Gn 23:18 +; cstr. מִקְנַת Gn 17:12 +; sf. מִקְנָתוֹ Lv 25:16 +;— purchase, מִקְנַת כֶּסֶף Gn 17:12, 13, 23, 27; Ex 12:44 (all P); סֵפֶר הַמּ׳ document of purchase Je 32:11, 12(×2), 14, 16. 2, Lv 25:16(×2), 51; 27:22 (P). possession (gained by purchase), לְמִקְנָה Gn 23:18 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the purchase (6); a purchase (3); his purchase (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 23:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.18/#tree)

לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם לְמִקְנָ֖ה לְעֵינֵ֣י בְנֵי־חֵ֑ת בְּכֹ֖ל בָּאֵ֥י שַֽׁעַר־עִירֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to Abraham to a.purchase to the.eyes of.the.people of.Heth for all \[those.who.were\].entering (of).the.gate his.city his

*JPS 1917:* unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

[Exodus 12:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.44/#tree)

וְכָל־עֶ֥בֶד אִ֖ישׁ מִקְנַת־כָּ֑סֶף וּמַלְתָּ֣ה אֹת֔וֹ אָ֖ז יֹ֥אכַל בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and every slave of.anyone \[the\].purchase of.silver and you.have.circumcised him then he.will.eat in it

*JPS 1917:* but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4736/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).