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Strong's #02596 - חָנַךְ
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- Strong
1) to train, dedicate, inaugurate
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to train, train up
1a2) to dedicate
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2178) knh (ההנכ HhNK) AC: Dedicate CO: ? AB: Dedication: An infant is trained to suck by placing a sour substance on the roof of the mouth. [from: kh]
V) knh (ההנכ HhNK) - Dedicate: To begin using something new. KJV (5): (vf: Paal) dedicate, train - Strongs: H2596 (חָנַךְ)
bm) kinh (ההניכ HhNYK) - Experienced: Something that is experienced in its use. KJV (1): trained - Strongs: H2593 (חָנִיךְ)
df1) ekfnh (ההנוכה HhNWKH) - Dedication: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (12): dedication - Strongs: H2597 (חֲנֻכָּה), H2598 (חֲנֻכָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
apparently denominative from 
rub palate of child with chewed dates, Lane659a, of midwife rub palate of new-born child with oil, etc., before it begins to suck, Dozy ii, 332; also make experienced, submissive, etc. (as one does a horse by a rope in its mouth) Lane; see also We Skizzen iii, 154; Late Hebrew חִנֵּךְ accustom; Aramaic חֲנַךְ dedicate, חַנֵּיךְ as Late Hebrew; Ethiopic II. 
perceive, understand (Di108, 
initiatio is loan-word Id. ib.)) — Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular suffix חֲנָכוֺ Deuteronomy 20:5; Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix יַחְנְכֶנּוּ Deuteronomy 20:5,3masculine plural וַיַּחְנְכוּ 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Chronicles 7:5; Imperative חֲנֹךְ Proverbs 22:6; —
1 train, train up a (the) youth (לַנַּעַר) Proverbs 22:6 (compare Late Hebrew חִנּוּךְ).
2 dedicate, of formal opening of a new house Deuteronomy 20:5 (twice in verse); dedicate, consecrate temple 1 Kings 8:63 2 Chronicles 7:5 (all followed by accusative)
חָנַךְ
(1) to make narrow, and intrans. to be narrow, enge fehn, i.q. חָנַק, עָנַק, which see. Hence חֵךְ for חֵנֶךְ, Arab. حَنَكُ jaws; compare עֲנָק a neck, (from the kindred root עָנַק, ) & הָנַק to strangle.
(2) denom. from חֵךְ, حَنَكُ jaws, palate, properly ἐμβύειν, to put something into the mouth, to give to be tasted; then by a common metaphor, in which taste is applied to understanding (see טַעַם and Job 12:11)
(a) to imbue some one with any thing, to instruct, to train up (compare نشع to put something into one’s mouth, also to instruct, to train). Proverbs 22:6, “train up a child according to his way,” as to his manners and habits. It is thus applied to inanimate things, hence
(b) to initiate, a house (that is to dedicate, or to commence to use). Deuteronomy 20:5, the temple, 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Chronicles 7:5. (Arabic حَنَكَ to understand. As to the meaning to perceive as ascribed to the Eth. ሐነከ፡ it does not rest upon sufficient authority; see Ludolfi Lex. Eth., page 40, whilst the additional meanings to know, to perceive by the sense, are altogether incorrect).
Derivatives, חֵךְ, חַכָּה, חָנִיךְ pr.n. חֲנוֹךְ and
