Calneh
כַּלְנֵ֑הStrong’s H3641kalneh (kal-neh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kalneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “calneh”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
Meaning
- § Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu"
- Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu"
How it's translated
- calneh 2
- and calneh 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כַּלְנֵ֑ה kalneh · Calneh
§ Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu" a city of Babylonia named among the cities of Nimrod maybe modern 'Niffer'
כַּלְנֶה kalneh · Calneh
Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu" an Assyrian city near Aleppo captured by Assyria in the 8th century BC Another spelling of kal.neh (כַּלְנֵ֑ה "Calneh" H3641A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.