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# קְנַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7073

**Kenaz** — used 11 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

Kenaz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7073/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְנַז: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7073/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Edom, Κενεζ: son of Eliphaz Gn 36:11 = 1 Ch 1:36; Gn 36:15 cf. v 42 = 1 Ch 1:53, and father of Othniel Jos 15:17; Ju 1:13; 3:9, 11; 1 Ch 4:13, 15 (v. BuRS 9 MeyEntstehung 115f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kenaz (6); of Kenaz (5).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.42/#tree)

אַלּ֥וּף קְנַ֛ז אַלּ֥וּף תֵּימָ֖ן אַלּ֥וּף מִבְצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* chief Kenaz chief Teman chief Mibzar

*JPS 1917:* the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;

[1 Chronicles 1:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.53/#tree)

אַלּ֥וּף קְנַ֛ז אַלּ֥וּף תֵּימָ֖ן אַלּ֣וּף מִבְצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* chief Kenaz chief Teman chief Mibzar

*JPS 1917:* the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7073.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7073/): 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).