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# קָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7071

**Kanah** — used 3 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

Kanah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7071/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָנָה²: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7071/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. of wady between Ephr. and Manass., נַחַל ק׳ Jos 16:8; 17:9 (both P), Κα(ρα)να, Καναι, etc.; identif. by RobBR iii. 135 with Wady Kânah, S. and SW. of Nablûs, cf. BuhlGeogr. 101, 105. loc. in Asher, 19:28, Καν(θ)α(ν), etc.; prob. Ḳâna, SE. from Tyre RobBR ii. 455 f. Buhl 229, Egyptian Kaʾnô WMMAs. u. Eur. 181, and perhaps TelAm. Ḳanû.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kanah (2); Kanah (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.28/#tree)

וְעֶבְרֹ֥ן וּרְחֹ֖ב וְחַמּ֣וֹן וְקָנָ֑ה עַ֖ד צִיד֥וֹן רַבָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah to Sidon great

*JPS 1917:* and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon.

[Joshua 16:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.8/#tree)

מִתַּפּ֜וּחַ יֵלֵ֨ךְ הַגְּב֥וּל יָ֙מָּה֙ נַ֣חַל קָנָ֔ה וְהָי֥וּ תֹצְאֹתָ֖יו הַיָּ֑מָּה זֹ֗את נַחֲלַ֛ת מַטֵּ֥ה בְנֵי־אֶפְרַ֖יִם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* from Tappuah it.goes the border westward the.wadi of.Kanah and they.are extremities its to the sea this \[was\].the.inheritance of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Ephraim to clans their

*JPS 1917:* From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7071.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7071/): 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).