מִקְנֶה miqneh

Hebrew word for “livestock” · Strong’s H4735 · used 76 times in 64 verses

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Meaning

1) cattle, livestock; 1a) cattle, livestock; 1a1) in general of a purchasable domestic animal; 1b) cows, sheep, goats (in herds and flocks)

How it is translated

Glosses given for miqneh in context, with how often each is used:

• livestock 75
• any of the livestock 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 9 (7), Genesis 47 (4), Numbers 32 (4), Genesis 46 (3), Genesis 13 (2), Genesis 31 (2), Genesis 34 (2), Genesis 36 (2), 1 Chronicles 5 (2), Job 1 (2)

Forms

• מקנה 24
• מקניהם 8
• ומקנה 6
• מקנהו 6
• המקנה 3
• מקנך 3
• מקנהם 3
• ובמקנה 3
• מקננו 2
• ומקניכם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with miqneh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• צֹאן tson “flock” 14
• קִנְיָן qinyan “acquisition” 6
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 9
• בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 8
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 12
• טַף taph “child” 6
• גָּמָל gamal “camel” 6
• רַב rav “many” 9
• רְכוּשׁ rekhush “property” 5
• מְאֹד meod “much” 7
• שָׁלָל shalal “spoil” 5
• רָכַשׁ rakhash “to gather” 3

Key verses

The verses using miqneh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 13:2 — And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
• Genesis 13:7 — And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
• Genesis 26:14 — For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
• Genesis 47:6 — The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any…
• Numbers 32:1 — Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that,…
• Judges 6:5 — For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they…
• 1 Chronicles 28:1 — And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the…
• 2 Chronicles 26:10 — Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Job 1:10 — Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his…
• Isaiah 30:23 — Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in…
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.