83 occurrences in 12 translations

'Buy' in the Bible

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsTen People

And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses Of

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

Verse ConceptsBuying Foodvulnerability

And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Then place my cup the silver one in the top of the sack belonging to the youngest one, along with the money he brought to buy grain." So the manager did precisely what Joseph told him to do.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndeterminate Sums Of Money

And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfRightsSlavesPermitted To Eat Offerings

And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingTradeWronging Other Peoplecheaterssales

According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

Verse ConceptsAccording To Time

‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialPoverty, Remedies ForRedemption, In Everyday Life

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Verse ConceptsMaking SlavesDealing With The Nationsslavery

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

Verse ConceptsForeignersMaking SlavesLaws Restricting ForeignersPropertyImmigrantsAliens

If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean Animals

Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodMoney Blessings

You may spend the money to your heart's content to buy livestock, flocks, wine, strong drink, and whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there and rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinkingFamilies, Nature OfAlcohol ConsumptionGetting WineStrong DrinkEating Drinking And RejoicingAlcoholic BeveragesAlcoholicsTithes And OfferingCelebrationMoney BlessingsSaving Moneybeeralcoholismfriendliness

And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringNeverSea TravelReturning to the oldGroups Of Slavesslavery

And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationKnowing Facts

Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPoverty, Attitudes Towards

Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

Verse ConceptsContractsShoes

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipBuying and sellingNegotiationProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstateFree Of Charge

Ahab addressed Naboth and asked him, "I would like to plant a vegetable garden near my house. Please exchange your vineyard with a better one from me, or if you'd rather have cash, I'll buy it for its full value."

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureCovetousness, Example Of

And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsWood And Stonefreemasonry

Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

Verse ConceptsCarpentersWood And Stonewoodworkingfreemasonry

And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

Verse ConceptsBuildingFidelityCarpentersMasonswoodworking

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.

Verse ConceptsLambsdrink offeringSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.” They remained silent and could not say a word.

Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my subordinates were gathered there for the work. We didn’t buy any land.

Verse ConceptsConcentration

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingCreditRespect, For EnvironmentSabbatical YearSabbath, In OtTradeYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptCancelling DebtsSabbath ObservedDebt

Indeed, you would gamble to buy an orphan; and barter to buy your friend!

Verse ConceptsOrphansGamblingBarteringTaking AdvantageFriends Failing

You can't buy it with gold, and its value cannot be calculated in silver.

Verse ConceptsBenefits Of WisdomBuying God's GiftValueweightsales

Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends?

Verse ConceptsBartering

He will not accept any ransom [offered to buy him off from demanding full punishment];Nor will he be satisfied though you offer him many gifts (bribes).

Verse ConceptsDefraudingNot Redeemed

The ransom for a man’s life is his wealth,But the poor man does not even have to listen to a rebuke or threats [from the envious].

Verse ConceptsRansomThreatsSatisfied With RichesSaving Money

What is this? A fool has enough money to buy wisdom, but is senseless?

Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToEducationSchoolFoolsinvesting

She makes [fine] linen garments and sells them;And supplies sashes to the merchants.

Verse ConceptsLinenMerchantsWomen WorkingMoney Management

Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterQuenchingLove Of Jesus, To The SaintsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfRomance

You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.

Verse ConceptsFatnessGod, Patience OfOffencePlantsSweetnessFat Of The SacrificesGod Growing Weary

This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment and put it on, but do not put it in water.”

Verse ConceptsLinenWaistsLinen Items

This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersPotterPottery

Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

Verse ConceptsRelationships And Dating

So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationRedemption, In Everyday Life

And I buy the field, that is in Anathoth, from Hanameel, my uncle's son, and I weigh to him the money -- seventeen shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageReal EstateWeighing

And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Verse ConceptsWitnesses, Legal

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsSignaturesThe Shephelah

We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingDrinking WaterFirewoodPaying For Goods

We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingSandalsTradeShoesPollutionsRubbishNot Helping The PoorPrice Set On Individuals

Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the Lord because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingKilling Domesticated AnimalsSatisfied With RichesUnpunishedPeople Without MercyGuilt

And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.

Verse ConceptsEveningVillagesCrowds AvoidedIsolated PersonsChrist Driving Out PeopleBuying FoodThe Disciples ReactionsEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingOil For LampsShortage Other Than Food

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Verse ConceptsChrist Driving Out PeopleBuying Food

He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

Verse ConceptsdoubtersUnbelief, And Life Of FaithWagesPeople Providing Food

But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFive ThingsBuying FoodFeeding GroupsTwo AnimalsFish

So he called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas [one apiece, each equal to about a hundred days’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business [with this] until I return.’

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsTradeAppropriationTen PeopleLarge DenominationsSpecific Sums Of MoneyEternal PerspectiveBusinessFinancesTalentsGifts And Talentsinvesting

Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Verse ConceptsAggressionOuter GarmentsBuying FoodInstruction About ClothesPreparing To TravelWeapons Of The BelieverMoney Box

(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

Verse ConceptsLeavingDisciples' Movements

When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfChrist SeeingPeople Providing Foodautonomy

For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

Verse ConceptsAccountancyJudas IscariotBuying and sellingMoney, Stewardship OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsThoughts Of The RighteousGiving To The Poor

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournLack Of Rejoicing

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Verse ConceptsThe False ProphetMark Of The Beast On ForeheadMark Of The BeastSaving Money

'And the merchants of the earth shall weep and sorrow over her, because their lading no one doth buy any more;

Verse ConceptsBabylonMerchandise

Bible Theasaurus

Bargain (7 instances)
Bribe (29 instances)
Corrupt (70 instances)
Purchase (47 instances)
Steal (42 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐμπορεύομαι 
Emporeuomai 
buy and sell , make merchandise , vr buy and sell
Usage: 2

כּרה 
Karah 
Usage: 3

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

קנא 
Q@na' (Aramaic) 
buy
Usage: 1

קנה 
Qanah 
Usage: 84

שׁבר 
Shabar 
buy , sell
Usage: 21

G59
ἀγοράζω 
Agorazo 
Usage: 21

ὠνέομαι 
oneomai 
buy
Usage: 1

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