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title: כָּנַס — gather · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּנַס (3664), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: gather. BDB 1906: vb. gather, collect. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּנַס

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«כָּנַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gather** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 3664 · **BDB:** כָּנַס

### Glosses

gather (4); I (1); I.gathered (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gather [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3664/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. gather, collect [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3664/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gather, collect (NH id. brought in; Aramaic כְּנַס (v. כנשׁ); Ethiopic ከነሰ in der. conj. assemble for worship, etc.; Arabic كَنَسَ is sweep, sweep away, destroy)— (late) Pf. 1 s. כָּנַסְתִּי Ec 2:8; Imv. כְּנוֹס Est 4:16; Inf. cstr. 1 Ch 22:2 + 3 times; Pt. כֹּנֵס ψ 33:7;—gather people 1 Ch 22:2 Est 4:16; כ׳ כַּנֵּד מֵי הַיָּ֑ם נֹתֵן בְּאוֹצָרוֹת תְּהוֹמוֹת ψ 33:7 (read perhaps, for כַּנֵּד, כַּנֹּאד as in a wine skin, v. נאד, נד); gather, collect portions of harvest for priests and Levites Ne 12:44; stones Ec 3:5 (opp. השׁליך); silver and gold = amass wealth Ec 2:8; abs. v 26 (‖ אסף). Pf. 1 s. וְכִנַּסְתִּ֫י אֶתְכֶם Ez 22:21 and I will gather you together (for punishment; Co tr. to v 20 and reads for וְהִנַּחְתִּ֫י; ‖ קבץ v 19, 20); of restoration וְכִנַּסְתִּים אֶל־אַדְמָתָם 39:28, and יְכַנֵּס ψ 147:2. Inf. cstr. וְהַמַּסֵּכָה צָרָה כְּהִתְכַּנֵּס Is 28:20 and the covering is (too) narrow when one gathers oneself together (‖ קָצַר הַמַּצָּע מֵהִשְׂתַּרֵעַ), i.e. the bed is too short to stretch one-self at full length, and when one (perforce) draws up the feet, the covering becomes too narrow.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּנַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3664/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 147:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.2/)

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בּוֹנֵ֣ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה נִדְחֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל יְכַנֵּֽס׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].building (of).Jerusalem Yahweh the.banished.\[ones\] of.Israel he.gathers

*JPS 1917:* The LORD doth build up Jerusalem, He gathereth together the dispersed of Israel;

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[Psalms 33:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.33.7/)

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כֹּנֵ֣ס כַּ֭נֵּד מֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם נֹתֵ֖ן בְּאֹצָר֣וֹת תְּהוֹמֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].gathering like (the) heap the.waters of the.sea \[he.is\].putting in storehouses the.deeps

*JPS 1917:* He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses.

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