To flatter
כָּנָהStrong’s H3655kanah (ka-nah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “use flattery”, “name” and “give a title you”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.”
Meaning
- To title, surname, be surnamed, give an epithet or cognomen, give a flattering title(Piel) to call by name, give a title, betitle
How it's translated
- i will use flattery 2
- he will name 1
- i will give a title you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 32:22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
- Isaiah 44:5One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
- Isaiah 45:4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּנָה kanah · to flatter
1) to title, surname, be surnamed, give an epithet or cognomen, give a flattering title 1a) (Piel) to call by name, give a title, betitle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flatter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLAT'TER, noun
The person or thing by which any thing is flattened.
All definitions and other forms of “flatter”
FLAT'TER, verb transitive
[Flatter may be from the root of flat, that is, to make smooth, to appease, to soothe. Latin plaudo. Perhaps flat and plaudo are from one root, the radical sense of which must be to extend, strain, stretch.]
- To soothe by praise; to gratify self-love by praise or obsequiousness; to please a person by applause or favorable notice, by respectful attention, or by any thing that exalts him in his own estimation, or confirms his good opinion of himself.“A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet” Proverbs 29:5
- To please; to gratify; as, to flatter one's vanity or pride.
- To praise falsely; to encourage by favorable notice; as, to flatter vices or crimes.
- To encourage by favorable representations or indications; as, to flatter hopes.
- To raise false hopes by representations not well founded; as, to flatter one with a prospect of success; to flatter a patient with the expectation of recovery when his case is desperate.
- To please; to soothe.
- To wheedle; to coax; to attempt to win by blandishments, praise or enticements.
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.