מִקְנֶה
miqneh · mik-neh'
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7069 (קָנָה);
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
- something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock
- abstractly, acquisition
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִקְנֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
76 occurrences · 76 OT · 0 NT · 63 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cattle8 · 17%
- their cattle5 · 11%
- and his cattle3 · 6%
- of their cattle2 · 4%
- and your cattle2 · 4%
- and possession2 · 4%
- the cattle2 · 4%
- of the cattle2 · 4%
- of cattle2 · 4%
- and the cattle2 · 4%
- thy cattle2 · 4%
- for cattle2 · 4%
- for he had possession1 · 2%
- you for your cattle1 · 2%
- your cattle1 · 2%
- in cattle1 · 2%
- hath been about cattle1 · 2%
- for their trade hath been to feed cattle1 · 2%
- shall not their cattle1 · 2%
- were with his cattle1 · 2%
- for his cattle1 · 2%
- over my cattle1 · 2%
- all his cattle1 · 2%
- that the cattle1 · 2%
- and of such as have cattle1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.