כַּו
kav · H3551 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Thing
- WindowHouse, permanent dwelling24 verses
Meanings
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window
An opening in the wall of a building, which admits light and often air to a room and allows its occupants to look out, or objects within to be seen; in some cases they can be opened and closed
ExamplesDaniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned that the document was signed, he entered his house (and in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and offering praise before his God, just as he had been doing previously.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פְּתַחopen 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- חַלּוֹן challôwn · H2474 · window
- Common Hebrew term for 'window' used throughout the Hebrew Bible (Gen 26:8, Josh 2:15, Judg 5:28, etc.); both refer to an opening in a building wall.
- אֲרֻבָּה ʼărubbâh · H699 · opening, hole, socket
- Hebrew term for 'window' or 'lattice opening,' often used poetically (2 Kgs 7:2, Mal 3:10) or for architectural openings; overlaps semantically with כַּו as a building aperture.
In the other Testament 1 word
- θυρίς thyrís · G2376 · window
- Greek translation equivalent for 'window' used in Acts 20:9 and 2 Cor 11:33; both refer to an opening in a wall for light/air or access.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Constructions001003002
- Daniel 6:10 recounts that when Daniel learned that the document was signed, “he entered his house (and in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and offering praise before his God, just as he had been doing previously.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3551. kav or kavvah [כַּוָּה NöGGA 1884. 1019] noun feminine window (כַּוְּתָא ᵑ7,…
or kavvah [כַּוָּה NöGGA 1884. 1019] noun feminine window (כַּוְּתָא ᵑ7, Syriac , compare SchulthLex. 91 (below * ), hence Arabic , id., as loan-word Frä13); — plural absolute מְּתִיחָן וִּין כַּ Dan 6:11 (compare S-CJ6).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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