Word

כְּנָת

kᵉnâth · H3675 · Aramaic · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

colleague, associate

Fellow member of the same group of people, sharing a bond of employment or a common purpose

Examples
Ezra 4:9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,
Ezra 4:17 Then the king sent a response to Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River: “Peace. And now,
Ezra 4:23 Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ decree was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in a hurry to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by military force.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

7 occurrences in 2 groups

הֶםtheir 6
הּher 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יְתִבto sit, to dwell 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֲפַרְסְכַיApharsachites 2

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

שְׁלַחput 1
אָתָהcome 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קֳדָםbefore 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁאָרwhatsoever more 2

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

Friends001001003003: Ezra 4:9 recounts the letter's senders as “Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites.”

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כָּנָה kânâh · H3655 · to take a name, to give a title · 4×כְּנָתkᵉnâth · H3675כְּנָת kᵉnâth · H3674 · colleague, associate · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3675. kenath [כְּנָת] noun masculine associate (Old Aramaic id, Lzb298 SAC65; S-CB 6;…

H3675. kenath
[כְּנָת] noun masculine associate (Old Aramaic id, Lzb298 SAC65; S-CB 6; Syriac ; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic [, ] SchwIdioticon 46 SchulthLex. 93; √ apparently כנח K§ 56, a) β2M§ 74 c; Buhl makes loan-word from Assyrian kinâtu, 'Genosse,' but see DlWB 338 ZimM.p. 66 *); — associate, plural suffix כְּבָוָתֵהּ Ezr 5:6, תְהוֺן- Ezr 4:9, Ezr 4:17, Ezr 4:23; Ezr 5:3; Ezr 6:6, Ezr 6:13.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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