Strong’s H4735 · Hebrew
מִקְנֶה
miqneh
mik-neh'
Definition
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
Etymology
from H7069 (קָנָה);
Where the KJV renders it
- cattle
- flock
- herd
- possession
- purchase
- substance
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.