מִקְנָה
purchase
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 9 times (60%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 6 times (40%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4736 appears — 13 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 5 verses
- Genesis 17:12 וּ/מִקְנַת conj + n c fs cs He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner who is not of your seed.
- Genesis 17:13 וּ/מִקְנַ֣ת conj + n c fs cs He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 17:23 מִקְנַ֣ת n c fs cs Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Genesis 17:27 וּ/מִקְנַת conj + n c fs cs All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
- Genesis 23:18 לְ/מִקְנָ֖ה prep + n c fs to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
Exodus 1 verse
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 25:16 מִקְנָת֔/וֹ מִקְנָת֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms According to the length of the years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
- Leviticus 25:51 מִקְנָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Leviticus 27:22 מִקְנָת֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
Jeremiah 4 verses
- Jeremiah 32:11 הַ/מִּקְנָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
- Jeremiah 32:12 הַ/מִּקְנָ֗ה הַ/מִּקְנָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
- Jeremiah 32:14 הַ/מִּקְנָ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.
- Jeremiah 32:16 הַ/מִּקְנָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun מקנה centers on the idea of “purchase.” First canonically at Genesis 17:12, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. Genesis dominates its distribution — 5 of 13 verses. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4736 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 69%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 31%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Purchase 5×, Price 2×
- American Standard Version: Purchase 5×, Price 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Purchase 5×, Or purchased 2×, Purchased 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: One bought with 3×, Price 2×, Purchase 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4736 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4736 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4736 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4736 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- purchase
- purchase-price
- possession (gained by purchase)
Word origin
Derived from מקנה (miqneh) (H4735) — cattle.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִקְנֶה
- property, esp. cattle. Num. R. s. 22 היה להם מ׳ גדול they had a large stock of cattle; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H4736 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/מִּקְנָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 32:11 | 2 |
| וּ/מִקְנַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 17:12 | 2 |
| מִקְנָת֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:16 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּקְנָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 32:16 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּקְנָ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 32:12 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּקְנָ֨ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 32:14 | 1 |
| וּ/מִקְנַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 17:13 | 1 |
| לְ/מִקְנָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 23:18 | 1 |
| מִקְנַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 17:23 | 1 |
| מִקְנַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 12:44 | 1 |
| מִקְנָת֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:16 | 1 |
| מִקְנָתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:51 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4736, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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