Hebrew word · H7079

קְנָת

kenat

Kenath

A place name. It appears here and in 1 Chr 2:23.

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Kenath = "possession"

a city in Gilead east of the Jordan taken possession of by a certain Nobah and renamed in his own honour

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Numbers 32:42

Range of meaning

A place name. It appears here and in 1 Chr 2:23.

Against the English

English versions simply transliterate it as Kenath.

Used elsewhere in the period

Usually identified with Qanawat in southern Syria, the Kanatha that Greek and Roman writers listed among the Decapolis cities (Pliny, Natural History 5.74) and that Josephus mentions. Some scholars link it with a 'Qanu' in Egyptian or Amarna-period texts, but that link is uncertain.

Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 32:42 קְנָ֖ת Kenath

    And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.

    Here: A town in the far north-east of the land east of the Jordan. It is usually identified with Qanawat, on the western slopes of the Hauran/Jebel Druze in modern Syria, the Kanatha of Greek and Roman times.

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:23 קְנָ֥ת Kenath

    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

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