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# כִּנָּם

Biblical Hebrew

**gnat\[s\]** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. iv. כֵּן sub II. כנן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gnat\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 8:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.14/#tree)

וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־כֵ֨ן הַחַרְטֻמִּ֧ים בְּלָטֵיהֶ֛ם לְהוֹצִ֥יא אֶת־הַכִּנִּ֖ים וְלֹ֣א יָכֹ֑לוּ וַתְּהִי֙ הַכִּנָּ֔ם בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.did thus the soothsayer-priests by enchantments their to bring.forth (et) the gnats and not they.were.able and it.was the gnat\[s\] on (the) humankind and on the livestock

*JPS 1917:* And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.

[Exodus 8:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.13/#tree)

וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־כֵ֗ן וַיֵּט֩ אַהֲרֹ֨ן אֶת־יָד֤וֹ בְמַטֵּ֙הוּ֙ וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֔רֶץ וַתְּהִי֙ הַכִּנָּ֔ם בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָ֑ה כָּל־עֲפַ֥ר הָאָ֛רֶץ הָיָ֥ה כִנִּ֖ים בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.did so and he.stretched.out Aaron (et) hand his with staff his and he.struck (et) the.dust of the.ground and it.was the gnat\[s\] on (the) humankind and on the livestock all the.dust of the.ground it.was gnats in all the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b8_5bc_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b8_5bc_5dd/): 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).