kanas · gather

What it means

kanas (כָּנַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gather”.

To gather: to bring people or things together in one place.

How to say it

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

1. To collect scattered things or people in one place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gather ×4
• He gathers ×2
• I gathered ×1
• I will collect ×1
• collecting ×1
• gathered them ×1
• wrap oneself in ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• 1 Chronicles 22:2

  David gave orders to gather the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to cut hewn stones to build the house of Elohim.

• Nehemiah 12:44

  And on that day men were appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the contributions, for the first part and for the tithes, to gather into them, from the fields of the cities, the portions of the law for the priests and for the Levites; for the rejoicing of Judah was over the priests and over the Levites who stood in their place.

• Esther 4:16

  “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and do not eat and do not drink for three days, night and day. I also and my young women will fast in the same way; and so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

• Psalms 33:7

  He gathers like a heap the waters of the sea; he puts in storehouses the deeps.

• Psalms 147:2

  YHWH builds Jerusalem; the banished of Israel he gathers.

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I gathered also for myself silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces; I made for myself male singers and female singers, and the delights of human beings, a lady and ladies.

• Ecclesiastes 2:26

  For to the man who is good before him he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives the occupation of gathering and collecting, to give to the one who is good before Elohim. This too is vapor and striving after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 3:5

  a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to keep far from embracing;

• Isaiah 28:20

  For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.

• Ezekiel 22:21

  And I will collect you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in its midst.

• Ezekiel 39:28

  And they will know that I am YHWH their Elohim, when I sent them into exile to the nations and gathered them onto their own ground, and did not leave any of them there anymore.