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# קְנָת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7079

**Kenath** — 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

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Kenath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7079/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְנָת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7079/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Κααθ, Κα(α)ναθ, E. of Jordan Nu 32:42 (JE); 1 Ch 2:23; perhaps Ḳanawat on W. slope of Hauran mountains (BuhlGeogr. 252).

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 (1 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: Kenath (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 32:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.42/#tree)

וְנֹ֣בַח הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֥ד אֶת־קְנָ֖ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֑יהָ וַיִּקְרָ֧א לָ֦ה נֹ֖בַח בִּשְׁמֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* and Nobah he.went and he.captured (et) Kenath and (et) daughters its and he.called (to) it Nobah by his.own name

*JPS 1917:* And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

[1 Chronicles 2:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.23/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח גְּשֽׁוּר־וַ֠אֲרָם אֶת־חַוֺּ֨ת יָאִ֧יר מֵאִתָּ֛ם אֶת־קְנָ֥ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים עִ֑יר כָּל־אֵ֕לֶּה בְּנֵ֖י מָכִ֥יר אֲבִי־גִלְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Geshur and Aram (et) the.villages of.Jair from with them (et) Kenath and (et) daughters its sixty citi\[es\] all these \[were\].the.sons of.Makir the.father of.Gilead

*JPS 1917:* And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7079.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7079/): 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).