כָּנָה
kânâh · H3655 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to take a name
Action by which humans adopt a name or title for themselves
ExamplesIsaiah 44:5 “This one will say, ‘I am the LORD’S’; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, ‘Belonging to the LORD,’ And will give himself Israel’s name with honor.
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to give a title
Cauative action by which humans or deities assign a name or title to (other) humans, either to honor or flatter them
ExamplesJob 32:21 “Let me be partial to no one, Nor flatter any man.
Job 32:22 “For I do not know how to flatter, Otherwise my Maker would quickly take me away.
Isaiah 45:4 “For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: I 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָּyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward+ אָדָםhuman, humankind, human being(s) 1
- בin/on/with+ שֵׁםname 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Name002004002010
- This word means to give someone a title or surname, an act of naming or renaming, so it belongs among words for naming.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3655. kanah [כָּנָה] verb Pi`el betitle, title, give an epithet or cognomen (Late Hebrew…
[כָּנָה] verb Pi`el betitle, title, give an epithet or cognomen (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּנָא, ; Arabic ) —
Pi`el Imperfect1singular suffix לְךָ אֲכַנְּךָוָאֶקְרָא בִשְׁמֶ֑ךָ Isa 45:4 I have called thee by thy name, giving thee a title (of honour; compare for construction Dr§ 163); 3 masculine singular יְכַנֶּה יִשְׂרָאֵל וּבְשֵׁם Isa 44:5, and with the name Israel he titles (himself), is hardly possibly; absolute he betitles, or makes use of a title, is unlikely; read probably
Pu`al, see below, in bad sense = give a flattering title: אֲכַנֶּה לֹא וְאֶלאָֿדָם Job 32:21 and unto man I do not give flattering titles (|| אִישׁ פְנֵי אֶשָּׂא אַללֿנָא); absolute Job 32:22.
Pu`al Imperfect יְכֻנֶּה Isa 44:5 he is betitled (see above; so ᵑ7 Bi Che Du; || יעקב בשׁם יקרא, etc.)
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
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