Wing
כָּנָףStrong’s H3671kanaph (ka-naph)
Appears in 85 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kanaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “wings”, “wings of” and “wings their”. It appears in 85 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Meaning
- Wing, extremity, edge, winged, border, corner, shirtwing · extremity
How it's translated
- wings 13
- wings of 12
- wings their 11
- wing 10
- wing of 6
- corners of 5
- skirt of 5
- wings its 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 23
- Psalms 12
- Isaiah 6
- Deuteronomy 5
- 2 Chronicles 5
- 1 Samuel 4
22 books in all.
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Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:9In contextThen lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
- Zechariah 8:23In contextThus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
- Genesis 1:21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 7:14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
- Exodus 19:4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
- Exodus 25:20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּנָף kanaph · wing
1) wing, extremity, edge, winged, border, corner, shirt 1a) wing 1b) extremity 1b1) skirt, corner (of garment)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WING, noun
- The limb of a fowl by which it flies.
- The limb of an insect by which it flies.
- In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous corol; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; also, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower stalk, or of a calyx.
- Flight; passage by the wind; as, to be on the wind; to take wing
All definitions and other forms of “wing”
- Means of flying; acceleration.
- Motive or incitement of flight.
- The flank or extreme body or part of an army.
- Any side-piece.
- In gardening, a side-shoot.
- In architecture, a side-building, less than the main edifice.
- In fortification, the longer sides of hornworks, crown-works, etc.
- In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and orlop deck, which are nearest the sides.
- In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Psalms 63:7Exodus 19:4
WING, verb transitive
- To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.
- To supply with side bodies; as on either side well winged.
- To transport by flight.
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.