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# קֵינִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7017

**Kenite** — used 12 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

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Kenite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7017/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵינִי: adj.gent. gent. coll. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7017/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of ii. קַיִן 1 (q.v.), חֶבֶר הַקּ׳ (dwelling in N. Isr.), ὁ Κειναῖος, Ju 4:11, 17(×2); 5:24 (against WMM Jen, who ref. ק׳ here to city Kîn near Megiddo, mentioned by Egyptian, v. especially Bu Now on 4:11); read prob. also חֹבָב הַקּ׳ 1:16 (for בְּנֵי ק׳; so Bu GFM; 𝔊 οἱ υἱοὶ Ιοθορ τοῦ Κειναίου); elsewhere as n. gent. coll. הַקּ׳ settled among Amal., Nu 24:21 (JE; v. ii. קַיִן 1), 1 S 15:6— = קֵינִי v 6 (We Bu Kit קַיִן, HPS הַקֵּינִי);—הַקּ׳ also 27:10; 30:29 (B 𝔊L Κενεζ(ε)ι = קְנִזִּי; A Κηνει, Κειναῖος); Gn 15:19 (list of peoples; R); = הַקִּינִים 1 Ch 2:55 (Κ(ε)ιναῖοι), related to Rechabites.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kenite (4); Kenite\[s\] (3); the Kenite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.19/#tree)

אֶת־הַקֵּינִי֙ וְאֶת־הַקְּנִזִּ֔י וְאֵ֖ת הַקַּדְמֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* (et) the Kenite\[s\] and (et) the Kenizzite\[s\] and (et) the Kadmonite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

[Judges 5:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.24/#tree)

תְּבֹרַךְ֙ מִנָּשִׁ֔ים יָעֵ֕ל אֵ֖שֶׁת חֶ֣בֶר הַקֵּינִ֑י מִנָּשִׁ֥ים בָּאֹ֖הֶל תְּבֹרָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* she.will.be.blessed more than.women Jael the.wife of.Heber the Kenite more than.women in the tent she.will.be.blessed

*JPS 1917:* Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in the tent shall she be blessed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7017.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7017/): 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).