Hebrew adv · H3660
כְּנֵמָא
kenemaken-ay-maw'
thus
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kᵉnêmâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3660is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3660
so or thus
The King James renders it: so, (in) this manner (sort), thus.
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
kenema is rendered "thus". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:8Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
Ezra 4:8כְּנֵֽמָא׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- as follows3
- accordingly1
- and as follows1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּנַעַנִי | Kenaani | Canaanite | Uses73 |
| כְּנָת | kenath | associate | Uses7 |
| כְּנָת | kenath | associate | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- כְּנֵ֖מָא3
- וּכְנֵ֥מָא1
- כְּנֵֽמָא׃1
The grammar of each form
- adverb4AD
- conjunction (“and”) + adverb1AC/D
Ezra
five uses
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
- כְּנֵֽמָא׃kenema'adverbtagged: as follows
They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”
- כְּנֵ֖מָאkenema'adverbtagged: as follows
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- כְּנֵ֖מָאkenema'adverbtagged: as follows
And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
- וּכְנֵ֥מָאukhenema'conjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and as follows
In response, Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.
- כְּנֵ֖מָאkenema'adverbtagged: accordingly
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 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.