Acquire

"to get, acquire, create, buy." A common Semitic word, qanâ is found in ancient and modern Hebrew and in ancient Akkadian and Ugaritic. It occurs in t…

Burn Incense (To)

"to burn incense, cause to rise up in smoke." The primary stem of this verb appears in Akkadian. Related forms appear in Ugaritic, Arabic, Phoenician,…

Buy (To)

"to get, acquire, create, buy." A common Semitic word, qanâ is found in ancient and modern Hebrew and in ancient Akkadian and Ugaritic. It occurs in t…

Create (To)

"to create, make." This verb is of profound theological significance, since it has only God as its subject. Only God can "create" in the sense implied…

Curse (To)

"to be trifling, light, swift; to curse." This wide-ranging word is found in both ancient and modern Hebrew, in ancient Akkadian, and (according to so…

Divine (To)

"to divine, practice divination." Cognates of this word appear in late Aramaic, Coptic, Syriac, Mandean, Ethiopic, Palmyran, and Arabic. This root app…

End

"end; not; nothing; only." The 42 occurrences of this word appear in every period of biblical literature. It has a cognate in Ugaritic. Basically, the…

Jealous (To Be)

"to be jealous; to be zealous." This verb, derived from the noun qin’â, occurs 34 times in the Old Testament. The root appears in several Semitic lang…

Practice Divination

"to divine, practice divination." Cognates of this word appear in late Aramaic, Coptic, Syriac, Mandean, Ethiopic, Palmyran, and Arabic. This root app…

Zealous

"to be jealous; to be zealous." This verb, derived from the noun qin’â, occurs 34 times in the Old Testament. The root appears in several Semitic lang…