כֵּן
ken · gnats
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3654 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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ken (כֵּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gnats”.
Small biting insects: gnats or lice; the exact sense is uncertain.
How to say it
ken
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Small biting insects.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- gnats ×6
- likewise ×1
Where it appears
- Exodus 8:16
YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 8:17
They did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on people and on animals; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:18
The magicians did the same by their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not. And there were gnats on people and on animals.
- Psalms 105:31
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, gnats in all their territory.
- Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens like smoke will vanish, and the earth like a garment will wear out, and its inhabitants likewise will die; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be shattered.
And 2 more times.