מִקְנָה
miqnâh · mik-naw'
properly, a buying, i.e. acquisition; concretely, a piece of property (land or living); also the sum paid
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H4735 (מִקְנֶה);
properly, a buying, i.e. acquisition; concretely, a piece of property (land or living); also the sum paid
- properly, a buying, i.e. acquisition
- concretely, a piece of property (land or living)
- also, the sum paid
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (he that is) bought, possession, piece, purchase.
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 מִקְנָה 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the purchase5 · 33%
- the price2 · 13%
- or bought1 · 7%
- and he that is bought1 · 7%
- and all that were bought1 · 7%
- and bought1 · 7%
- for a possession1 · 7%
- that is bought1 · 7%
- that he was bought1 · 7%
- which he hath bought1 · 7%
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.