kenema · thus, so

What it means

kenema (כְּנֵמָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “thus, so”.

Thus, in this way (Aramaic).

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. In this way: it announces what was done or is to be said (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thus ×4
• as follows ×1

Where it appears

• Ezra 4:8

  Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:

• Ezra 5:4

  Then we told them thus: “What are the names of the men who are building this building?”

• Ezra 5:9

  Then we asked those elders and thus we said to them: ‘Who gave you an order to build this house and to finish this structure?’

• Ezra 5:11

  And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.

• Ezra 6:13

  Then Tattenai, governor of the other side of the river, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, according to what Darius the king had sent, thus they did with diligence.