Original Language Studio
Genesis 47:20
“And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.” (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
- יִּ֨קֶן — 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.