kinyan · possessions

What it means

kinyan (קִנְיָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “possessions”.

What has been acquired: goods, possessions, property.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one has acquired: belongings, animals.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• possessions ×3
• goods ×2
• property ×2
• possession ×1
• purchase ×1
• you possess ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Leviticus×1
• Joshua×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 31:18

  He drove off all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 34:23

  Their livestock, their property, and all their animals, will they not be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

• Genesis 36:6

  Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the persons of his household, his livestock, all his animals, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from Jacob his brother.

• Leviticus 22:11

  But if a priest buys a person, the purchase of his silver, he may eat of it, and those born in his house, they may eat of his food.

• Joshua 14:4

  For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, and their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.

• Psalms 104:24

  How many are your works, YHWH! All of them in wisdom you have made; the earth is full of your possessions.

• Psalms 105:21

  He made him lord of his house and ruler over all his possessions,

• Proverbs 4:7

  The beginning of wisdom: acquire wisdom, and with all you possess acquire understanding.

• Ezekiel 38:12

  to take spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins now inhabited, and against a people gathered from nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the navel of the earth.

• Ezekiel 38:13

  Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its young lions will say to you, “Is it to take spoil that you come? Is it to seize plunder that you have assembled your assembly, to carry away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to take great spoil?”’