כָּנָה
kana · flatter, give a title
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3655 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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kana (כָּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flatter, give a title”.
To give someone a title or honorific name; to flatter.
How to say it
ka·na
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
- Give an honorific name; flatter with names.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- give titles ×2
- I have surnamed you ×1
- will surname himself ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 32:21
Let me not, please, show partiality to anyone, nor will I give titles to a human being.
- Job 32:22
For I do not know how to give titles; in a little while my Maker would carry me off.
- Isaiah 44:5
This one will say, ‘I belong to YHWH’; and that one will call himself by the name of Jacob; and another will write on his hand, ‘To YHWH,’ and with the name of Israel will surname himself.”
- Isaiah 45:4
For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one, I have called you by your name; I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.