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1 Kings 16:24
“And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7069 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, [idiom] surely, [idiom] verily.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּ֜קֶן — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 86 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:1Genesis 14:19Genesis 14:22Genesis 25:10Genesis 33:19
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read קָנָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.