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מִקְנֶה
miqneh · Hebrew · Strong's H4735 · 76 occurrences
The KJV renders 15 different Hebrew and Greek words as “substance”
What it means
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
from H7069 (קָנָה);
How the KJV renders it
cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“substance”
“possession”
also renders ktēma (G2933), katáschesis (G2697), peripoíēsis (G4047), chōríon (G5564), ʼăchuzzâh (H272), yᵉrêshâh (H3424), yᵉrushshâh (H3425), môwrâsh (H4180), maʻăseh (H4639), nachălâh (H5159)
“flock”
“purchase”
also renders ktáomai (G2932), peripoiéomai (G4046), gâʼal (H1350), qânâh (H7069)
“cattle”
also renders thrémma (G2353), bᵉʻîyr (H1165)
Where it appears
76 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 5:9 · HNcmsc/Sp3mp
and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5:21 · HNcmsc/Sp3mp
They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 7:21 · HNcmsc/Sp3mp
Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
1 Chronicles 28:1 · HC/Ncmsa
David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
1 Samuel 23:5 · HNcmsc/Sp3mp
David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 30:20 · HTd/Ncmsa
David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
2 Chronicles 14:15 HNcmsa2 Chronicles 26:10 HNcmsa2 Chronicles 32:29 HC/Ncmsc2 Kings 3:17 HC/Ncmpc/Sp2mpDeuteronomy 3:19 HC/Ncmsc/Sp2mpEcclesiastes 2:7 HNcmsaExodus 9:3 HR/Ncmsc/Sp2msExodus 9:4 HNcmscExodus 9:6 HC/R/NcmscExodus 9:7 HR/NcmscExodus 9:19 HNcmsc/Sp2msExodus 9:20 HNcmsc/Sp3msExodus 9:21 HNcmsc/Sp3msExodus 10:26 HNcmsc/Sp1cpExodus 12:38 HNcmsaExodus 17:3 HNcmpc/Sp1csExodus 34:19 HNcmsc/Sp2msEzekiel 38:12 HNcmsaEzekiel 38:13 HNcmsaGenesis 4:20 HC/NcmsaGenesis 13:2 HRd/NcmsaGenesis 13:7 HNcmscGenesis 26:14 HC/NcmscGenesis 29:7 HTd/NcmsaGenesis 30:29 HNcmsc/Sp2msGenesis 31:9 HNcmscGenesis 31:18 HNcmscGenesis 33:17 HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3msGenesis 34:5 HNcmsc/Sp3msGenesis 34:23 HNcmsc/Sp3mpGenesis 36:6 HNcmsc/Sp3msGenesis 36:7 HNcmsc/Sp3mpGenesis 46:6 HNcmsc/Sp3mpGenesis 46:32 HNcmsaGenesis 46:34 HNcmsaGenesis 47:6 HNcmsaGenesis 47:16 HNcmpc/Sp2mpGenesis 47:17 HC/R/NcmscGenesis 47:18 HC/NcmscGenesis 49:32 HNcmscIsaiah 30:23 HNcmsc/Sp2msJudges 6:5 HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mpJudges 18:21 HTd/NcmsaJeremiah 9:10 HNcmsaJeremiah 49:32 HNcmsc/Sp3mpJob 1:3 HNcmsc/Sp3msJob 1:10 HC/Ncmsc/Sp3msJob 36:33 HNcmsaJoshua 1:14 HC/Ncmpc/Sp2mpJoshua 14:4 HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mpJoshua 22:8 HC/R/NcmsaNumbers 20:19 HC/Ncmpc/Sp1csNumbers 31:9 HNcmsc/Sp3mpNumbers 32:1 HC/Ncmsa
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