H7066
קְנָא
to purchase
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qᵉnâʼPronunciation
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to purchase
קְנָא(qᵉnâʼ)
Strong’s Definition
to purchase
(Aramaic) corresponding to H7069 (קָנָה);
“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.”
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The Purchase That Transforms the Purchaser
Only once does the Aramaic voice of this verb sound in all of Scripture—a single, potent utterance that echoes like a merchant's hammer striking the auction block. The word qᵉnâʼ appears but one time, yet its singularity is not weakness but weight, for when heaven speaks a word only once, that word carries the force of a divine decree. This is a verb of acquisition, of taking possession, yet the sages have long taught that when the Holy One purchases, He does not merely own—He transforms. The Hebrew root behind this Aramaic form, related to qânâh, carries the sense of creating as well as acquiring, for in the ancient mind, to make something was to possess it, and to possess it was to enter into covenant with it. The paleo-Hebrew letters of the root—a qof, a nun, and an aleph—paint a picture that the rabbis of old contemplated: the qof representing the holy, the nun speaking of life and continuity, and the aleph signifying the ox's strength, the first letter, the beginning. To purchase, then, is to bring holiness into the realm of living strength, to acquire what was lost and make it new again.The Divine Pattern of Acquisition
The first time God performs this action in the sacred text, He does so not with silver or gold, but with a word. In the book of Genesis, the Holy One qânâh—He acquired, He created—the heavens and the earth (Genesis 14:19, 22). Melchizedek, priest of the Most High, declares: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth." The verb there is the same root, and the ancient Jewish understanding sees this not merely as making but as purchasing with purpose. When God creates, He takes possession of what He makes, and His possession is redemptive. The Aramaic form before us, qᵉnâʼ, appears in the book of Ezra, where the returning exiles are described as those whom the King of kings has purchased for His service (Ezra 4:13, 17, 20). The context is telling: the enemies of Israel write to Artaxerxes, accusing the Jews of rebuilding Jerusalem, and they use this very word to describe the city that "of old time" was a place of rebellion. But the deeper truth is that the Holy One purchases what others have abandoned. He buys back what was lost, and His purchase is a reclamation project of cosmic proportion.Human Purchase vs. Divine Purchase
When a man purchases, he acquires for himself. He calculates the cost, weighs the value, and takes ownership for his own benefit. The merchant buys grain to sell; the landowner buys a field to harvest; the king buys tribute to enrich his treasury. But when the Most High purchases, He acquires for the sake of the purchased. The rabbis of old observed that human acquisition is a taking, while divine acquisition is a giving. The Holy One buys you, not to use you, but to restore you. The verb qᵉnâʼ in its Aramaic context appears in the court of earthly kings, where tribute and taxes are paid to a sovereign who demands his due. Yet the heavenly King turns this pattern on its head: He pays the price Himself, and the tribute He receives is your freedom. The prophet Isaiah saw this clearly: "For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he" (Isaiah 44:23). The purchase price is not paid to God but by God, and the transaction transforms the one purchased into a child of the King.The Covenant Context of the Purchase
Every covenant in Scripture is a purchase agreement. When the Holy One made covenant with Abraham, He passed through the pieces of the sacrifice, purchasing Abraham's descendants as His own (Genesis 15:17-18). When He made covenant at Sinai, He declared, "You shall be My own possession among all peoples" (Exodus 19:5). The Hebrew word there is sᵉgullâh, a treasured possession, but the act that made Israel His was the qᵉnâh—the divine acquisition. The single use of the Aramaic qᵉnâʼ in Ezra comes in a letter where the enemies of Israel attempt to halt the rebuilding of the Temple. They accuse the Jews of seeking to avoid paying tribute, but the deeper truth is that the Holy One's purchased people owe tribute to no earthly king. Their allegiance has been bought by heaven. The failure of Israel, as the prophets lamented, was forgetting whose property they were. "You have forgotten the God who gave you birth," Moses warned (Deuteronomy 32:18). The covenant hinges on remembering that you are not your own—you have been qᵉnâʼ—purchased.The Gematria of the Purchased Soul
The numerical value of qᵉnâʼ is 151. In the sacred arithmetic of the Hebrew letters, this number carries profound resonance. The number 151 is the sum of 100, 50, and 1—the qof, the nun, and the aleph that form the root. But the sages who contemplated the hidden order of Scripture observed that the value 151 also appears in the phrase qôl Elohim, "the voice of God." For when the Holy One purchases, He does so through His voice—the word that creates, the command that redeems, the promise that secures. The number 151 further reduces to 7 (1+5+1), the number of completion, of the Sabbath rest. The purchase of the Most High leads to rest—not the exhaustion of servitude, but the peace of belonging. Your soul, purchased by the voice of God, finds its Sabbath in the one who bought you.The Messianic Purchase
The single occurrence of qᵉnâʼ in the Aramaic of Ezra finds its ultimate fulfillment in the work of Yeshua the Messiah. When He entered the Temple, He declared, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations" (Mark 11:17), quoting the prophet Isaiah and echoing the very rebuilding that the Aramaic word describes. But the purchase He made was not of stones but of souls. The apostolic tradition teaches that "you were bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20), and the Greek verb there, agorazō, carries the same marketplace resonance as qᵉnâʼ. Yeshua went to the auction block of Golgotha, and there He purchased a people for His own possession. The Tanakh foresaw this: "He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation" (Isaiah 59:16). The arm that purchased was stretched out on the cross. The price was His blood. And the purchased ones are being built into a Temple not made with hands, a house where the Holy One dwells by His Spirit.Your Call to Be Purchased
You have been qᵉnâʼ—purchased. The transaction is complete. The price has been paid. But here is the mystery that the rabbis of old could only glimpse: the one who purchases you is not a distant merchant but a loving Bridegroom, and the purchase is a betrothal. You are not a slave in His house but a child at His table. The single utterance of this verb in Scripture is enough, for one word from the mouth of God is sufficient to remake the universe. Hear that word spoken over your life today: you are His. The Covenant has been sealed. The Temple is being rebuilt. And you, beloved, are the living stone in that holy place. Go now and live as one who has been bought with a price—not for bondage, but for freedom. The purchase of the King is your liberation, and His ownership is your peace.