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title: קין — spear · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קין (6969), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: spear. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קין

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«קין» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spear** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 6969 · **BDB:** קין

### Glosses

he.made.a.lament (3); they.will.take.as.a.lament (2); people (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spear [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6969/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; cf. Arabic قَانَ fit together, fabricate (make artificially), forge (cf. WetzstSyriac Dreschtafel (1873) 297), whence قَيْنٌ worker in iron, Assyrian ḳinai (MeissnZA viii (1893), 82), 𝔗 קֵינָאָה, Syriac ܩܰܝܢܳܝܳܐ, Palm. קיניא (pl.) metal-worker, cf. BH תּוּבַל קַיִן; also Arabic قَيْنَةٌ slave-girl, and women-singer, lute-player (from skill); cf. Ethiopic ቅኔ song, singing, Syriac ܩܺܝܢܬܳܐ, hymn, elegy; Arabic vb. iv Dozy; NH קִינָה = BH; cf. also BuZAW ii (1882), 28).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קין» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6969/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 3:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.33/)

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וַיְקֹנֵ֥ן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל־אַבְנֵ֖ר וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַכְּמ֥וֹת נָבָ֖ל יָמ֥וּת אַבְנֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.a.lament the king concerning Abner and he.said like \[the\] death? of.a.fool will.he.die Abner

*JPS 1917:* And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?

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[2 Samuel 1:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.17/)

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וַיְקֹנֵ֣ן דָּוִ֔ד אֶת־הַקִּינָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את עַל־שָׁא֖וּל וְעַל־יְהוֹנָתָ֥ן בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.a.lament David (et) the lamentation (the) this on Saul and on Jonathan son his

*JPS 1917:* And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

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