Gnat
כֵּןStrong’s H3654ken
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ken is the Hebrew word usually translated “gnats” and “gnat”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Gnat, gnats, gnat-swarm
How it's translated
- gnats 3
- the gnat 2
- the gnats 1
- gnat 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 8:17And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:18And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
- Psalms 105:31He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
- Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Hebrew dictionary
כֵּן ken · gnat
gnat, gnats, gnat-swarm
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gnat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GNAT, noun
nat. A small insect, or rather a genus of insects, the Culex, whose long cylindric body is composed of eight rings. They have six legs and their mouth is formed by a flexible sheath, inclosing bristles pointed like stings. The sting is a tube containing five or six spicula of exquisite fineness, dentated or edged. The most troublesome of this genus is the musketoe.
- Any thing proverbially small.“Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel” Matthew 23:24
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.