mikna · purchase

What it means

mikna (מִקְנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “purchase”.

What is bought: property, a deed of purchase; also a bought slave; the price paid.

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 is bought: an acquisition made with silver.
2. What is paid for something: its price, above all the price of redeeming a servant.
3. A servant bought with silver, who belongs to his master's household.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• purchase ×6
• bought ×3
• one bought ×2
• price ×2
• those bought ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×4
• Jeremiah×5

• Genesis 17:12

  At the age of eight days every male among you shall be circumcised throughout your generations, the one born in the house and the one bought with silver from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He must surely be circumcised, the one born in your house and the one bought with your silver; and my covenant will be in your flesh as an eternal covenant.

• Genesis 17:23

  Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house and all those bought with his silver, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, as Elohim had told him.

• Genesis 17:27

  and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with silver from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

• Genesis 23:18

  to Abraham as a purchase in the sight of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

• Exodus 12:44

  But any man’s slave bought with silver, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.

• Leviticus 25:16

  The more the years, the more you shall increase its price, and the fewer the years, the more you shall decrease its price; for it is a number of harvests that he is selling to you.

• Leviticus 25:51

  If many years still remain, according to them he shall pay back the price of his redemption from the silver he was bought for.

• Leviticus 27:22

  And if he consecrates to YHWH a field he has bought, which is not part of the field of his possession,

• Jeremiah 32:11

  And I took the deed of purchase, the sealed one, the terms and the statutes, and the open one;

• Jeremiah 32:12

  and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel my uncle, and before the eyes of the witnesses who had written in the deed of purchase, before the eyes of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 32:14

  ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of purchase, the sealed one, and this open deed, and put them in a vessel of clay, so that they may last many days.

• Jeremiah 32:16

  And I prayed to YHWH, after I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, saying,

And 2 more times.