Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #2596 - חָנַךְ chanak (to train up)


Original Word:חָנַךְ
Transliteration: chanak
Definition:to train up, dedicate
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(khaw-nak')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

dedicate, train up

A primitive root; properly, to narrow (compare chanaq); figuratively, to initiate or discipline -- dedicate, train up.

see HEBREW chanaq


Englishman's Concordance

1) to train, dedicate, inaugurate
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to train, train up
1a2) to dedicate
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 693

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. חִָנִךְverbtrain up, dedicate (compare Arabic apparently denominative from rub palate of child with chewed dates, Lane659a, of midwiferub palate of new-born child with oil, etc., before it begins to suck, Dozyii, 332; also make experienced, submissive, etc. (as one does a horse by a rope in its mouth) Lane; see also WeSkizzen iii, 154; Late Hebrew חִנֵּךְaccustom; Aramaic חֲנַךְdedicate, חַנֵּיךְ as Late Hebrew; Ethiopic II. perceive, understand (Di108, initiatio is loan-word Id.ib.)) —

QalPerfect3masculine singular suffix חֲנָכוֺDeuteronomy 20:5; Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יַחְנְכֶנּוּDeuteronomy 20:5, 3masculine plural וַיַּחְנְכוּ1 Kings 8:63; 2Chronicles 7:5; ImperativeחֲנֹךְProverbs 22:6; —

1train, train up a (the) youth (לַנַּעַר) Proverbs 22:6 (compare Late Hebrew חִנּוּךְ).

2dedicate, of formal opening of a new house Deuteronomy 20:5 (twice in verse); dedicate, consecrate temple 1 Kings 8:63 2Chronicles 7:5 (all followed by accusative)


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2596. חָנַך (chanak) — 5 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 20:5
HEB:חָדָשׁ֙ וְלֹ֣א חֲנָכ֔וֹ יֵלֵ֖ךְ וְיָשֹׁ֣ב
NAS: house and has not dedicated it? Let him depart
KJV: house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go
INT: A new not dedicated depart and return

Deuteronomy 20:5
HEB:וְאִ֥ישׁ אַחֵ֖ר יַחְנְכֶֽנּוּ׃
NAS: and another man would dedicate it.
KJV: and another man dedicate it.
INT: man and another dedicate

1 Kings 8:63
HEB:וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָ֑לֶף וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙ אֶת־ בֵּ֣ית
NAS: of Israel dedicated the house
KJV: of Israel dedicated the house
INT: and twenty thousand dedicated the house of the LORD

2 Chronicles 7:5
HEB:וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָ֑לֶף וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙ אֶת־ בֵּ֣ית
NAS: the people dedicated the house
KJV: and all the people dedicated the house
INT: and twenty thousand dedicated the house of God

Proverbs 22:6
HEB: חֲנֹ֣ךְ לַ֭נַּעַר עַל־
NAS:Train up a child in the way
KJV:Train up a child in the way
INT:Train A child and

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