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# כְּנָת

Biblical Aramaic

**associate** — used 7 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

associate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּנָת: n.m. associate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 4:17 associate (Old Aramaic id., Lzb 298 SAC65; S-CB 6; Syriac ܟܢܳܬ; Chr-Pal. \[ܟܢܐ, ܟܢܬ\] SchwallyIdiot. 46 SchulthLex. 95; √ appar. כנה K§ 56, α) β2 M-A§ 74 c; Buhl makes loan-wd. from Assyrian kinâtu, ‘Genosse,’ but v. DlWB 338 ZimM p. 66);—associate, pl. sf. בְנָוָתֵהּ Ezr 5:6, -תְהוֹן 4:9, 17, 23; 5:3; 6:6, 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: associates (5); of (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.13/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן תַּתְּנַ֞י פַּחַ֧ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י וּכְנָוָתְה֑וֹן לָקֳבֵ֗ל דִּֽי־שְׁלַ֞ח דָּרְיָ֧וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֛א כְּנֵ֖מָא אָסְפַּ֥רְנָא עֲבַֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* then Tattenai the.governor of.the.region.beyond the river Shethar-Bozenai Shethar-Bozenai and associates their (to) before that he.had.sent Darius the king accordingly diligently they.did

*JPS 1917:* Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had thus sent, acted with all diligence.

[Ezra 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.6/#tree)

כְּעַ֡ן תַּ֠תְּנַי פַּחַ֨ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֜ה שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ וּכְנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹןאֲפַרְסְכָיֵ֔א דִּ֖י בַּעֲבַ֣ר נַהֲרָ֑ה רַחִיקִ֥ין הֲו֖וֹ מִן־תַּמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* now O.Tattenai the.governor of.the.region.beyond the river Shethar-Bozenai Shethar-Bozenai and associates their the officials who \[are\].in the.region.beyond the river far be! from there

*JPS 1917:* 'Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your companions the Apharesachites, who are beyond the River, be ye far from thence;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5ea/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).