Aramaic word · H3660
כְּנֵ֫מָא
kenema'
thus
A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?
Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.
Where it appears
Ezra · 5
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Ezra 4:8 כְּנֵֽמָא׃ as follows
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
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Ezra 5:4 כְּנֵ֖מָא as follows
They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”
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Ezra 5:9 כְּנֵ֖מָא as follows
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
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Ezra 5:11 וּכְנֵ֥מָא and 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.
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Ezra 6:13 כְּנֵ֖מָא accordingly
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.
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