קְנָא qᵉnâʼ — to purchase
Translated in the KJV as buy.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H7069; to purchase.
qᵉnâʼ in each stem
Pe'al
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תִקְנֵ֜א Ezra 7:17 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
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 ›