קְנַז
Kenaz
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7073 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 1:36 קְנַ֖ז n Proper The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
- 1 Chronicles 1:53 קְנַ֛ז n Proper chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
- 1 Chronicles 4:13 קְנַ֔ז n Proper The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
- 1 Chronicles 4:15 וּ/קְנַֽז conj + n Proper The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
קנז (Qᵉnaz) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Kenaz.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 36:11. Spanning 11 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 4 of 11 verses. For the data behind this summary, explore 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7073 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 36%
- Genesis 3 verses 27%
- Judges 3 verses 27%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 27%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Kenaz 11×
- American Standard Version: Kenaz 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kenaz 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kenaz 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7073 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7073 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7073 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7073 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Kenaz = "hunter"
- son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau; one of the dukes of Edom
- a brother of Caleb and father of Othniel
Word origin
n.pr.m. in Edom, Κενεζ: son of Eliphaz Gn 36:11 = 1 Ch 1:36; Gn 36:15 cf. v 42 = 1 Ch 1:53, and father of Othniel Jos 15:17; Ju 1:13; 3:9, 11; 1 Ch 4:13, 15 (v. BuRS 9 MeyEntstehung 115f.).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: probably from an unused root meaning to hunt
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H7073 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| קְנַ֔ז | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:13 | 3 |
| וּ/קְנַֽז | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:11 | 2 |
| קְנַ֖ז | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:36 | 2 |
| קְנַ֛ז | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:42 | 2 |
| קְנַֽז | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:15 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7073, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kenaz). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Hunter. (1.) One of the sons of Eliphaz, the son of Esau. He became the chief of an Edomitish tribe (Gen. 36:11, 15, 42).
(2.) Caleb's younger brother, and father of Othniel (Josh. 15:17), whose family was of importance in Israel down to the time of David (1 Chr. 27:15). Some think that Othniel (Judg. 1:13), and not Kenaz, was Caleb's brother.
(3.) Caleb's grandson (1 Chr. 4:15).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(hunting).
+ Son of Eliphaz the son of Esau. He was one of the dukes of Edom. (Genesis 36:15,42; 1 Chronicles 1:53) + One of the same family, a grandson of Caleb, according to (1 Chronicles 4:15) (where see margin).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
this purchase; this lamentation
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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