קְנָת
Kenath
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Kenath’ fuller range ↓
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 H7079 appears in the Book of Numbers — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Numbers
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.
The Hebrew name קנת centers on the idea of “Kenath.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Numbers dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Debuting at Numbers 32:42, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7079 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: Kenath 2×
- American Standard Version: Kenath 1×, Them 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kenath 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kenath 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7079 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7079 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7079 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7079 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 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.
- Kenath = "possession"
- a city in Gilead east of the Jordan taken possession of by a certain Nobah and renamed in his own honour
Word origin
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).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קנה (qânâh) (H7069) — to acquire.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קְנָת
- (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Kenath, on the east of the Jordan (v. Hildesh. Beitr., p. 49 sq.). Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᶜ (not קנח); Tosef. Shebi. IV, 11 (v. ed. Zuck. note); Sifré Deut. 51; Yalk. ib. 874 יינקת (corr. acc., or קוּנְתְּיָיה).
קֶנֶת
- (v. קָנַן; cmp. קַנְקַן I) [that which is inserted,] handle, helve. Macc. II, 1 מקַנְתּוֹ Ar. (or מקַנָּתוֹ fr. קַנָּה; ed. מקַתּוֹ, v. קַתְּ).—Pl. קַנְתּוֹת. Y’lamd. to Lev. XIX quot. in Ar. ק׳ של רמחים וכ׳ handles of spears and knives.—[Kel. XV, 1 R. S. Vers., v. קִיסְטָה.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H7079 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| קְנָ֖ת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:42 | 1 |
| קְנָ֥ת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7079, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מקנה miqneh H4735 cattle
- קנא qᵉnâʼ H7066 to acquire
- קנה qâneh H7070 reed
- קנין qinyân H7075 acquisition
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kenath). 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
Possession, a city of Gilead. It was captured by Nobah, who called it by his own name (Num. 32:42). It has been identified with Kunawat, on the slopes of Jebel Hauran (Mount Bashan), 60 miles east from the south end of the Sea of Galilee.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(possession), one of the cities on the east of Jordan, with its "daughter-towns" (Authorized Version "villages") taken possession of by a certain Nobah, who then called it by his own name, (Numbers 32:42)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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