כִּנָּם
Biblical Hebrew
Meaning
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
The whole BDB entry
v. iv. כֵּן sub II. כנן.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: none
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gnat[s] (2).
In the verses
וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־כֵ֨ן הַחַרְטֻמִּ֧ים בְּלָטֵיהֶ֛ם לְהוֹצִ֥יא אֶת־הַכִּנִּ֖ים וְלֹ֣א יָכֹ֑לוּ וַתְּהִי֙ הַכִּנָּ֔ם בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃
Word for word: and they.did thus the soothsayer-priests by enchantments their to bring.forth (et) the gnats and not they.were.able and it.was the gnat[s] on (the) humankind and on the livestock
JPS 1917: And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.
וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־כֵ֗ן וַיֵּט֩ אַהֲרֹ֨ן אֶת־יָד֤וֹ בְמַטֵּ֙הוּ֙ וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֔רֶץ וַתְּהִי֙ הַכִּנָּ֔ם בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָ֑ה כָּל־עֲפַ֥ר הָאָ֛רֶץ הָיָ֥ה כִנִּ֖ים בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃
Word for word: and they.did so and he.stretched.out Aaron (et) hand his with staff his and he.struck (et) the.dust of the.ground and it.was the gnat[s] on (the) humankind and on the livestock all the.dust of the.ground it.was gnats in all the.land of.Egypt
JPS 1917: And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
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