Kind
זַןStrong’s H2177zan
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zan is the Hebrew word usually translated “kinds”, “from kind” and “kind”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.”
Meaning
- Kind, sort
How it's translated
- and kinds 1
- from kind 1
- kind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
זַן zan · kind
kind, sort Aramaic equivalent: zan (זַן "kind" H2178)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KIND, noun
- Race; genus; generic class; as in mankind or humankind.
- Sort, in a sense more loose than genus; as, there are several kinds of eloquence and of style, many kinds of music, many kinds of government, various kinds of architecture or of painting, various kinds of soil, etc.
- Particular nature; as laws most perfect in their kind
- Natural state; produce or commodity, as distinguished from money; as taxes paid in kind
All definitions and other forms of “kind”
- Nature; natural propensity or determination.
- Manner; way. [Little used.]
- Sort.
KIND, adjective
- Disposed to do good to others, and to make them happy by granting their requests, supplying their wants or assisting them in distress; having tenderness or goodness of nature; benevolent; benignant.“God is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil” Luke 6:35“Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted” Ephesians 4:32
- Proceeding from tenderness or goodness of heart; benevolent; as a kind act; a kind return of favors.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.