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Strong's #3675 - כְּנָת
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- companion, associate
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did not use
this Strong's Number
2272) tnk (כנת KNT) AC: ? CO: Associate AB: ?: [from: nk- as one who gathers himself to another]
Nm ) tnk (כנת KNT) - Associate: KJV (8): companion - Strongs: H3674 (כְּנָת), H3675 (כְּנָת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic [
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] Schw Idioticon 46 Schulth Lex. 93; √ apparently כנח K§ 56, a) β 2 M§ 74 c; Buhl makes loan-word from Assyrian kinâtu, 'Genosse,' but see Dl WB 338 Zim M.p. 66 *); — associate, plural suffix כְּבָוָתֵהּ Ezra 5:6, תְהוֺן- Ezra 4:9,17,23; Ezra 5:3; Ezra 6:6,13.
כְּנָת unused in sing.; plur. כְּנָווֹת Ezra 4:7 prop. cognomen (from the root כָּנָה, which see); meton. one who bears the same cognomen as another, i.e. performs the same function, is subject to the same king; σύνδουλος, colleague, associate in office. The form כְּנָת is for כְּנָאת, כְּנָאֶת, and the plural is formed in the same manner as מְנָאוֹת, מְנָיוֹת from מְנָת; see Lehrg. p. 607. To this answers Syriac ܟܢܳܬܳܐ, plur. ܟܰܢܘܳܬܐܳ i.e. σύνδουλος, σύνδουλοι. As to the feminine form of nouns of office, see Lehrg. p. 468.
כְּנָת Ch. id.; plur. כְּנָוָן const. and with suff. כְּנָוָת Ezra 4:9, 17 Ezra 4:17, 23 Ezra 4:23, 5:3, Ezra 5:6, 6:6, 13 Ezra 6:13.
