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title: קֵינִי — Kenite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֵינִי (7017), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Kenite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. gent. coll. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֵינִי

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«קֵינִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kenite** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 7017 · **BDB:** קֵינִי

### Glosses

Kenite (4); Kenite\[s\] (3); the.Kenite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kenite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7017/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. gent. coll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7017/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of ii. קַיִן 1 (q.v.), חֶבֶר הַקּ׳ (dwelling in N. Isr.), ὁ Κειναῖος, Ju 4:11, 17(×2); 5:24 (against WMM Jen, who ref. ק׳ here to city Kîn near Megiddo, mentioned by Egyptian, v. especially Bu Now on 4:11); read prob. also חֹבָב הַקּ׳ 1:16 (for בְּנֵי ק׳; so Bu GFM; 𝔊 οἱ υἱοὶ Ιοθορ τοῦ Κειναίου); elsewhere as n. gent. coll. הַקּ׳ settled among Amal., Nu 24:21 (JE; v. ii. קַיִן 1), 1 S 15:6— = קֵינִי v 6 (We Bu Kit קַיִן, HPS הַקֵּינִי);—הַקּ׳ also 27:10; 30:29 (B 𝔊L Κενεζ(ε)ι = קְנִזִּי; A Κηνει, Κειναῖος); Gn 15:19 (list of peoples; R); = הַקִּינִים 1 Ch 2:55 (Κ(ε)ιναῖοι), related to Rechabites.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֵינִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7017/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 15:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.19/)

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אֶת־הַקֵּינִי֙ וְאֶת־הַקְּנִזִּ֔י וְאֵ֖ת הַקַּדְמֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* (et) the Kenite\[s\] and (et) the Kenizzite\[s\] and (et) the Kadmonite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

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[Judges 5:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.24/)

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תְּבֹרַךְ֙ מִנָּשִׁ֔ים יָעֵ֕ל אֵ֖שֶׁת חֶ֣בֶר הַקֵּינִ֑י מִנָּשִׁ֥ים בָּאֹ֖הֶל תְּבֹרָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* she.will.be.blessed more than.women Jael the.wife of.Heber the Kenite more than.women in the tent she.will.be.blessed

*JPS 1917:* Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in the tent shall she be blessed.

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