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Word Study · Strong's H3671 · Hebrew

כָּנָף

kanaph

kaw-nawf'

Strong's 1890 spelling: kânâph

an edge or extremity

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

an edge or extremity; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bedclothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinnacle

Rendered in the KJV as

[phrase] bird, border, corner, end, feather(-ed), [idiom] flying, [phrase] (one an-) other, overspreading, [idiom] quarters, skirt, [idiom] sort, uttermost part, wing(-ed).

  • 109
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 22 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 68
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 109 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 68

  • כָּנָֽף׃5
  • כַּנְפֵ֣י5
  • כְּנָפַ֖יִם5
  • כַּנְפ֥וֹת4
  • כְּנַ֥ף3
  • כָּנָ֔ף3
  • כַּנְפֵ֥י3
  • כַּנְפֵי־3
  • כְּנָפָ֖יו3
  • בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָ2
  • בְּכַנְפֵיהֶם֙2
  • וְהַכָּנָ֤ף2

and 56 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 37

  • [the] wings of11
  • wings their11
  • wing10
  • wings10
  • [the] corners of5
  • [the] skirt of5
  • [the] wing of5
  • wings its5
  • wings your5
  • and wings their4
  • wings his4
  • of wings3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 26

  • noun · feminine dual13
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”)13
  • noun · feminine singular13
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)11
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural9
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular9
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular5
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural4
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)4
  • preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfda · 13
  • HNcfdc · 13
  • HNcfsa · 13
  • HNcfsc · 11
  • HNcfdc/Sp3mp · 9
  • HNcfdc/Sp3ms · 9
  • HR/Ncfsc · 6
  • HNcfdc/Sp2ms · 5
  • HC/Ncfdc/Sp3mp · 4
  • HNcfpc · 4
  • HR/Ncfdc/Sp3mp · 3
  • HC/Ncfsc · 2

All 109, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Ezekiel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus5 occurrences
Leviticus1 occurrence
Numbers2 occurrences
Deuteronomy5 occurrences
Ruth2 occurrences
1 Samuel5 occurrences
2 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Kings12 occurrences
2 Chronicles10 occurrences
Job4 occurrences
Psalms12 occurrences
Proverbs2 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah7 occurrences
Jeremiah3 occurrences
Ezekiel26 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea1 occurrence
Haggai2 occurrences
Zechariah4 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).