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title: כְּנָת — associate · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּנָת (3674), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: associate. BDB 1906: associate, colleague. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּנָת

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«כְּנָת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **associate** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3674 · **BDB:** כְּנָת

### Glosses

his.associates (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

associate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3674/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

associate, colleague [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3674/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[of men, but f. in form, Ges§ 122, 4. b\] associate, colleague (loan-wd. from Biblical Aramaic כְּנָת; Syriac ܟܢܳܬ, cf. also SchwallyIdiot. 46; on format. v. LagBN 82);—only Aramaic pl. שְׁאָר כְּנָוֹתָ‌֯ו Ezr 4:7 the rest of his associates.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּנָת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3674/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/)

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וּבִימֵ֣י אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֗שְׂתָּא כָּתַ֨ב בִּשְׁלָ֜ם מִתְרְדָ֤ת טָֽבְאֵל֙ וּשְׁאָ֣ר כְּנָוֺתָ֔יו עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרָ֑ס וּכְתָב֙הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן כָּת֥וּב אֲרָמִ֖ית וּמְתֻרְגָּ֥ם אֲרָמִֽית׃פ

*Word for word:* and in the.days of.Artaxerxes he.wrote Bishlam Mithredath Tabeel and the.rest his.associates his to Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia and the.writing of the.letter \[was\].written Aramaic and \[it.was\].translated Aramaic

*JPS 1917:* And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Aramaic character, and set forth in the Aramaic tongue.

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