קָנָה
qânâh · kaw-naw'
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
- to erect, i.e. create
- by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell)
- by implication, to own
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, [idiom] surely, [idiom] verily.
Letters
- 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)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָנָה 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
84 occurrences · 84 OT · 0 NT · 70 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- buy9 · 21%
- bought6 · 14%
- get2 · 5%
- and get2 · 5%
- and to buy2 · 5%
- getteth2 · 5%
- and he bought2 · 5%
- thou hast purchased1 · 2%
- behold, i have bought1 · 2%
- bought he1 · 2%
- and no man shall buy1 · 2%
- purchased1 · 2%
- you; of them shall ye buy1 · 2%
- if thou buy1 · 2%
- the possessor1 · 2%
- to him that bought1 · 2%
- of him that hath bought1 · 2%
- thou shalt buy1 · 2%
- or buyest1 · 2%
- among you, of them shall ye buy1 · 2%
- with him that bought1 · 2%
- unto him of whom it was bought1 · 2%
- possessor1 · 2%
- that hath bought1 · 2%
- i have gotten1 · 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.