כָּנַע kana

Hebrew word for “be humble” · Strong’s H3665 · used 36 times in 32 verses

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Meaning

1) to be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection;

How it is translated

Glosses given for kana in context, with how often each is used:

• subdued 9
• humbled himself 5
• will subdue 4
• humbled yourself 3
• humbled 3
• has humbled himself 2
• humbled themselves 2
• will humble itself 1
• may humble themselves 1
• had humbled themselves 1
• have humbled themselves 1
• when he humbled himself 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 12 (3), 2 Chronicles 33 (3), Leviticus 26 (1), Deuteronomy 9 (1), Judges 3 (1), Judges 4 (1), Judges 8 (1), Judges 11 (1), 1 Samuel 7 (1), 2 Samuel 8 (1)

Forms

• ויכנעו 7
• ותכנע 5
• ויכנע 5
• נכנע 4
• נכנעו 3
• ויכניעם 2
• יכנע 1
• יכניעם 1
• והכנעתי 1
• ובהכנעו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kana more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 4
• אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 4
• יַעַן yaan “because” 3
• רָכַךְ rakhakh “be tender” 2
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 4
• לֵבָב levav “heart” 3
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 4
• שָׁקַט shaqat “to quiet” 2
• מָקוֹם maqom “place” 3
• קָרַע qara “to tear” 2
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 3
• דָּבָר davar “word” 4

Key verses

The verses using kana that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:41 — And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they…
• Deuteronomy 9:3 — Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them…
• 1 Kings 21:29 — Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I…
• 2 Kings 22:19 — Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants…
• 2 Chronicles 7:14 — If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,…
• 2 Chronicles 12:6 — Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
• 2 Chronicles 30:11 — Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
• 2 Chronicles 33:12 — And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• 2 Chronicles 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven…
• 2 Chronicles 33:23 — And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
• 2 Chronicles 34:27 — Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof,…
• Isaiah 25:5 — Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.