קָנָה qânâh — to erect, i.e. create
Translated in the KJV as attain, buy, teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess, purchase, recover, redeem, × surely, × verily.
a primitive root; to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own.
qânâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 24Participle (active) 13Imperative 12Infinitive construct 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Wayyiqtol 7Infinitive absolute 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›