keni · Kenite

What it means

keni (קֵינִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Kenite”.

(s): a people of southern Canaan; Moses' father-in-law belonged to them.

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. A southern people, to which Moses' father-in-law belonged.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Kenites ×8
• Kenite ×5

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×6
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Chronicles×1

• Genesis 15:19

  the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

• Numbers 24:21

  And he saw the Kenites and took up his poem and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the crag;

• Judges 1:16

  The sons of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the City of Palms with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev of Arad; and he went and lived with the people.

• Judges 4:11

  Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

• Judges 4:17

  Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

• Judges 5:24

  Blessed be above women Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; above women in the tent may she be blessed.

• 1 Samuel 15:6

  Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, turn aside, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I remove you with them; for you showed loyal love to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites turned aside from among Amalek.

• 1 Samuel 27:10

  Achish would say, “Against whom have you raided today?” And David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah,” or “against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites,” or “against the Negev of the Kenites.”

• 1 Samuel 30:29

  to those in Racal, to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, to those in the towns of the Kenites,

• 1 Chronicles 2:55

  And the families of the scribes who lived in Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

And 3 more times.