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puÌ‚r´chaÌ„Ìs: In modern English, “to acquire by payment,†in Elizabethan English, “to acquire†by any means. In the Old Testament, the King James Version has used “purchase†to represent ×§× ×”, kÌ£aÌ„naÌ„h, and its derivatives (verb and noun), except in , where the word is ×’Ö¼×ל, gaÌ„'al (the Revised Version (British and American) “redeemâ€). In the New Testament the noun does not occur and the verb is used for κταÌομαι, ktaÌomai, in ; , and πεÏιποιεÌω, peripoieÌoÌ„, in ; . But none of these words connotes the payment of a price, so that the Revised Version (British and American) has kept the word only in (margin “acquiredâ€), changing it into “obtain†in ; , and “gain†in . In the Old Testament, the Revised Version margin has “gotten†in and the American Standard Revised Version has (very properly) introduced the same word into the text of ; .