50 occurrences

'Buy' in the Bible

The people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die.”

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

Then ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Verse ConceptsTen People

So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who were coming, for the famine was in the land of Canaan also.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses Of

When Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke to them harshly. And he said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

Then they said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

Verse ConceptsBuying Foodvulnerability

So it came about when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food,

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

We have also brought down other money in our hand to buy food; we do not know who put our money in our sacks.”

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be 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 allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingTradeWronging Other Peoplecheaterssales

Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.

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

You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodMoney Blessings

So I thought to inform you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who are sitting here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if not, tell me that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.’” And he said, “I will redeem it.”

Verse ConceptsNegotiationKnowing Facts

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPoverty, Attitudes Towards

So the closest relative said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

Verse ConceptsContractsShoes

Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be held back from the people.”

Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipBuying and sellingNegotiationProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstateFree Of Charge

But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price; for I will not take what is yours for the Lord, or offer a burnt offering which costs me nothing.”

They in turn gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy quarried stone and timber for couplings and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.

Verse ConceptsBuildingFidelityCarpentersMasonswoodworking

with this money, therefore, you shall diligently buy bulls, rams and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings and offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsLambsdrink offeringSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

I also applied myself to the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

Verse ConceptsConcentration

As for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

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

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom,When he has no sense?

Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToEducationSchoolFoolsinvesting

Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”

Verse ConceptsLinenWaistsLinen Items

Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersPotterPottery

‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy for yourself my field which is at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.”’

Verse ConceptsRelationships And Dating

Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the Lord and said to me, ‘Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the right of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationRedemption, In Everyday Life

You have said to me, O Lord God, “Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses”—although the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”

Verse ConceptsWitnesses, Legal

Men will buy fields for money, sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the Negev; for I will restore their fortunes,’ declares the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsSignaturesThe Shephelah

So as to buy the helpless for moneyAnd the needy for a pair of sandals,And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingSandalsTradeShoesPollutionsRubbishNot Helping The PoorPrice Set On Individuals

Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.

Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingKilling Domesticated AnimalsSatisfied With RichesUnpunishedPeople Without MercyGuilt

When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and the hour is already late; so send the crowds away, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

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

But the prudent answered, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingOil For LampsShortage Other Than Food

send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Verse ConceptsChrist Driving Out PeopleBuying Food

But He said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people.”

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFive ThingsBuying FoodFeeding GroupsTwo AnimalsFish

And He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one.

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

For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Verse ConceptsLeavingDisciples' Movements

Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him, *said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?”

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfChrist SeeingPeople Providing Foodautonomy

For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.

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

and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournLack Of Rejoicing

and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

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

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

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ἀγοράζω 
Agorazo 
Usage: 21

ὠνέομαι 
oneomai 
buy
Usage: 1

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