Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3654
כֵּן
kenkane
gnat
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3654is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3654
a gnat
The King James renders it: lice, [idiom] manner.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ken is rendered "gnat". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 8:16Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
Exodus 8:16לְכִנִּ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- gnats2
- the gnat2
- gnat1
- into gnats1
- the gnats1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַכִּנָּ֔ם2
- הַכִּנִּ֖ים1
- כֵ֣ן1
- כִנִּ֖ים1
- כִּ֝נִּ֗ים1
- לְכִנִּ֖ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Exodus
five uses
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
- לְכִנִּ֖םlekhinimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: into gnats
This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
- הַכִּנָּ֔םhakinamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the gnat
- כִנִּ֖יםkhinimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: gnats
The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.
- הַכִּנִּ֖יםhakinimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the gnats
- הַכִּנָּ֔םhakinamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the gnat
Psalms
one use
He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
- כִּ֝נִּ֗יםkinimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: gnats
Isaiah
one use
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
- כֵ֣ןkhennoun · masculine singulartagged: gnat
The letters
Gematria 70· 720 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.