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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #3664 - כָּנַס
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2267) xnk (כנס KNS) AC: Gather CO: ? AB: ?: [from: nk- gathering]
V) xnk (כנס KNS) - Gather: KJV (11): (vf: Paal, Hitpael, Piel) gather, together, heap, wrap - Strongs: H3664 (כָּנַס)
hm) xnkm (מכנס MKNS) - Undergarment: A piece of clothing that is gathered up. KJV (5): breeches - Strongs: H4370 (מִכְנָס)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
כָּנַס
(1) to collect, gather, to heap up, as stones, Ecclesiastes 3:5 treasures, Ecclesiastes 2:8, 26 water, Psalms 33:7.
(2) to gather together, persons. Esther 4:16; 1 Chronicles 22:2
[“(3) to hide, see Hithp. and deriv. מִכְנָסַיִם.”]
(Aram. כְּנַם to collect, to gather together. Arab. كنز id., also, to lay up, elsewhere كنس. Cognate to this are the transposed roots נָכַס; whence נֶכֶס treasure, and סָכַן; whence מִסְכְּנוֹת stores: also, by a softening of letters, נָּנַז.)
Piel, i.q. Kal No. 2, to gather together persons. Ezekiel 22:21, 39:28 Psalms 147:2.
Hithpael, to hide oneself away, to wrap oneself up. Isaiah 28:20, וְהַמַּסֵּכָה צָרָה כְּהִתְכַּנֵּם “and the covering is too narrow for one to wrap himself in it.” Compare כְּ B 5.
Hence מִכְנָסַיִם [“כּוֹס, כִּיס”].
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13