Strong's Hebrew · H2596

חָנַךְ

chânak · khaw-nak'

dedicate, train up.

Definition

properly, to narrow; figuratively, to initiate or discipline

Derivation

a primitive root; (compare H2614 (חָנַק))

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Deuteronomy 20:5

Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

2 Chronicles 7:5

And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

1 Kings 8:63

And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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