כָּנַשׁ
kânash · H3673 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to be assembled, to be gathered
Action by which humans come together in one place for a common purpose
ExamplesDaniel 3:3 Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Daniel 3:27 The satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men, nor was the hair of their heads singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had even the smell of fire touched them.
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to gather
Causative action by which humans summon other humans to come to one place for common purpose
ExamplesDaniel 3:2 Nebuchadnezzar the king also sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
How it’s used In 3 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 6 groups
- הַדָּבָרcounsellor 1
- אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּןprince 1
- סְגַןgovernor 1
- פֶּחָהcaptain 1
- שִׁלְטוֹןruler 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for+ חֲנֻכָּאdedication 1
- לto/for+ שִׁלְטוֹןruler 1
- לto/for+ אָתָהcome 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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 8 words
- קָבַץ qâbats · H6908 · to come together, to gather, to assemble
- Both lexemes denote the same core action—gathering or assembling—and would function as near-synonyms in context.
- קָהַל qâhal · H6950 · to gather together, to assemble, to gather
- Both words denote gathering and assembling actions with closely overlapping sense, and could substitute for one another in context.
- לָקַשׁ lâqash · H3953 · to gather, to glean
- Both lexemes genuinely denote gathering actions and could plausibly substitute in synonymous contexts.
- לָקַט lâqaṭ · H3950 · to gather, to glean
- Both words denote gathering actions; לָקַט (lâqaṭ, H3950) carries the nuance of gleaning.
- צָבַר tsâbar · H6651 · to heap up, to pile up, to store up
- Both words denote gathering and collecting actions with overlapping sense, the second word in the manner of heaping, piling and storing up.
- אָסַף ʼâçaph · H622 · to gather, to be assembled, to assemble
- Both words denote gathering and assembling actions, and are transitive verbs of collection in Hebrew.
- אָגַר ʼâgar · H103 · to gather in, to harvest
- Both words denote the same basic action of gathering or assembling; the second word is rendered "gather in, harvest".
- קָשַׁשׁ qâshash · H7197 · to gather, to come together, to collect
- Both words describe the same gathering action, "gather (selves) together", as intransitive or reflexive verbs; they are two distinct roots describing the same action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Gather002003002013
- Daniel 3:27 recounts that “the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3673. kenash [כְּנַשׁ] verb gather (ᵑ7 id.; Old Aramaic Palmyrene בנש Lzb298; Syriac ;…
[כְּנַשׁ] verb gather (ᵑ7 id.; Old Aramaic Palmyrene בנש Lzb298; Syriac ; see also Biblical Hebrew [כָּנַס); —
Pe`al Infinitive, לְמִכְנַשׁ, followed by ל accusative of person Dan 3:2.
Hithpa. Participle plural מִתְכַּנְּשִׁין (were) assembled Dan 3:3, Dan 3:27.
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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