כְּנֵמָא
kᵉnêmâʼ · H3660 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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thus
A referent pointing to information that is to follow
ExamplesEzra 5:9 “Then we asked those elders and said to them as follows: ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows—
Ezra 5:4 Then we told them accordingly what the names of the men were who were reconstructing this building.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- οὕτω hoútō · G3779 · so, thus, in this way
- οὕτως (houtōs) is the standard Greek adverb meaning 'thus, so, in this manner,' serving as the direct translation equivalent for Aramaic כְּנֵמָא across its attested uses in Daniel where both express manner and result.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Event Referents003002
- Ezra 5:9 recounts that “we asked those elders and said to them as follows: ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3660. kenema כְּנֵ֫מָא adverb accordingly, as follows (derivation uncertain: NöGGA,…
כְּנֵ֫מָא adverb accordingly, as follows (derivation uncertain: NöGGA, 1884, 1021 Marti and others from כֵּן + indefinite מָא, so somewhat, ungefähr so: see older improbable view (as we should say, from כְּ and נֵימָא = נֵאמַר, compare Talmud יֵימָא for יֵימַר) in Thes652): referring backwards, Ear Ezr 6:13 עֲבַדוּ ֗֗֗ כְּנֵמָא did accordingly; referring forwards, Ezr 4:8 . . . כְנֵמָא כְּתַבוּ wrote a letter . . . as follows, Ezr 5:4(read c אֲמַרוּ ᵐ5; אֲמַרְנָא from Ezr 5:9, MeyEntst. 26), Ezr 5:9; Ezr 5:11.
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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