Kind
זַןStrong’s H2178zan
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zan is the Aramaic word usually translated “kinds of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:”
Meaning
- Kind, sort
How it's translated
- kinds of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
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Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:7In contextTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:10In contextThou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
- Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Aramaic dictionary
זַן zan · kind
kind, sort Aramaic of zan (זַן "kind" H2177)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.