'Bought' in the Bible
This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.
In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up, living with him and his children. It shared his meager food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
The king answered Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you for a price, for I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 20 ounces of silver.
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue. The king’s traders bought them from Kue at the going price.
then he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for 150 pounds of silver, and he built up the hill. He named the city he built Samaria based on the name Shemer, the owner of the hill.
Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,who cannot be bought off with silverand who have no desire for gold.
You have not bought Me aromatic cane with silver,or satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices.But you have burdened Me with your sins;you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
“Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Euphrates and hide it in a rocky crevice.”
So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out to him the money—17 shekels of silver.
For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’
Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It’s a desolation without man or beast; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans!’
So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.