Kenite
קַ֫יִןStrong’s H7017qayin (qa-yin)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qayin is the Hebrew word usually translated “kenite” and “kenites”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,”
Meaning
- Ancestors of Heber (H2268H) or Hobab (H2246), first mentioned at Gen.15.19
How it's translated
- the kenite 9
- kenite 2
- the kenites 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:21And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
- Judges 1:16And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
- Judges 4:11Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
- Judges 4:17Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 5:24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
- 1 Samuel 15:6And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Hebrew dictionary
קַ֫יִן qayin · Kenite
Ancestors of Heber (H2268H) or Hobab (H2246), first mentioned at Gen.15.19 Group of qe.ni (קֵינִי "Kenite" H7017) § Cain = "possession" eldest son of Adam and Eve and the first murderer having murdered his brother
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.