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title: קְנָת — Kenath · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְנָת (7079), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Kenath. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְנָת

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«קְנָת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kenath** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 7079 · **BDB:** קְנָת

### Glosses

Kenath (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kenath [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7079/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7079/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Κααθ, Κα(α)ναθ, E. of Jordan Nu 32:42 (JE); 1 Ch 2:23; perhaps Ḳanawat on W. slope of Hauran mountains (BuhlGeogr. 252).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 «קְנָת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7079/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 32:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.42/)

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וְנֹ֣בַח הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֥ד אֶת־קְנָ֖ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֑יהָ וַיִּקְרָ֧א לָ֦ה נֹ֖בַח בִּשְׁמֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* and Nobah he.went and he.captured (et) Kenath and (et) daughters its and he.called (to) it Nobah by his.own name

*JPS 1917:* And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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[1 Chronicles 2:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.23/)

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וַיִּקַּ֣ח גְּשֽׁוּר־וַ֠אֲרָם אֶת־חַוֺּ֨ת יָאִ֧יר מֵאִתָּ֛ם אֶת־קְנָ֥ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים עִ֑יר כָּל־אֵ֕לֶּה בְּנֵ֖י מָכִ֥יר אֲבִי־גִלְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Geshur and Aram (et) the.villages of.Jair from with them (et) Kenath and (et) daughters its sixty citi\[es\] all these \[were\].the.sons of.Makir the.father of.Gilead

*JPS 1917:* And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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