קֵינִי qeni

Hebrew word for “Kenite” · Strong’s H7017 · used 12 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

Ancestors of Heber (H2268H) or Hobab (H2246), first mentioned at Gen.15.19;

How it is translated

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

• kenites 7
• kenite 5

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 4 (2), Genesis 15 (1), Numbers 24 (1), Judges 1 (1), Judges 5 (1), 1 Samuel 15 (1), 1 Samuel 27 (1), 1 Samuel 30 (1), 1 Chronicles 2 (1)

Forms

• הקיני 9
• קיני 2
• הקינים 1

Words used with it

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

• חֶבֶר chever “Heber” 3
• יְרַחְמְאֵלִי yerachmeeli “Jerahmeelite” 2
• יָעֵל yael “Jael” 2
• חֹתֵן choten “relative” 2
• אֹהֶל ohel “tent” 3
• נֶגֶב negev “south” 2
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 2
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 2
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 2
• אֵת et “with” 2
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 2
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 15:19 — The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
• Numbers 24:21 — And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
• Judges 1:16 — And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which…
• Judges 4:11 — Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain…
• Judges 4:17 — Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of…
• Judges 5:24 — Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
• 1 Samuel 15:6 — And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of…
• 1 Samuel 27:10 — And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the…
• 1 Samuel 30:29 — And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
• 1 Chronicles 2:55 — And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father…

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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.