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Amos 8:6
“That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
קָנָהqânâh · kaw-naw'
H7069 · Hebrew
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
- לִ — preposition
- קְנ֤וֹת — verb Qal, infinitive construct
- 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.