chanach · dedicate

What it means

chanach (חָנַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dedicate”.

Begin to use a house or an altar with a solemn act; also to train.

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. Inaugurate a house or altar with a ceremony.
2. Bring up a child from the start.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dedicated ×3
• Train ×1
• dedicate it ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  And the supervisors shall speak to the people, saying, “Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man dedicate it.

• 1 Kings 8:63

  And Solomon sacrificed the sacrifice of peace that he sacrificed to YHWH: twenty and two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 7:5

  King Solomon sacrificed the sacrifice: twenty and two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of Elohim.

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train the young man according to his way; even when he is old he will not turn away from it.

And 1 more times.