Thus
כְּנֵ֫מָאStrong’s H3660kenema (ke-ne-ma)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kenema is the Aramaic word usually translated “as follows” and “accordingly”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:”
Meaning
- Thus, so, accordingly, as follows
How it's translated
- as follows 3
- and as follows 1
- accordingly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 5:4Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
- Ezra 5:9Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
- Ezra 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
- Ezra 6:13Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.
Aramaic dictionary
כְּנֵ֫מָא kenema · thus
thus, so, accordingly, as follows
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thus” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THUS, adverb
In this or that manner; on this wise; as, thus saith the Lord; the Pharisee prayed thus
- “THUS did Noah, according to all that God commanded him” Genesis 6:22
- To this degree or extent; as thus wise; thus peaceable.
- In the phrase, thus much, it seems to be an adjective, equivalent to this much.
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.