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# קַרְנַיִם

Biblical Hebrew

**Karnaim** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Karnaim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַרְנַ֫יִם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. conquered by Isr. Am 6:13 (so Gr We Now GASm, cf. also לֹא דְבָר p. 520 supr.; 𝔊 and most sub קֶרֶן 2); prob. in Bashan, = Καρναιν 1 Macc 5:43, 44, Καρνιον 2 Macc 12:21; also in עַשְׁתְּרוֹת ק׳ Gn 14:5 (v. iii. עַשְׁתָּרוֹת p. 800 supr.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: Karnaim (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.13/#tree)

הַשְּׂמֵחִ֖ים לְלֹ֣א דָבָ֑ר לֹ֣א דָבָ֑ר הָאֹ֣מְרִ֔ים הֲל֣וֹא בְחָזְקֵ֔נוּ לָקַ֥חְנוּ לָ֖נוּ קַרְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* the.joyful \[people\] to Lo Debar \[who\] say ? not by our.own strength have.we.taken for ourselves Karnaim

*JPS 1917:* Ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say: 'Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b7_5d9_5b4_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).