כַּלְנֶהKalneh

כַּלְנֵ֑ה: proper name [of a location]: in Babylonia (Genesis 10:10; Amos 6:2)

Pronunciation: kal-neh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3641

Meanings

כַּלְנֶה: proper name [of a location]: probably = כַּלְנוֺ, city (conquered by Assyria under Sargon?) possibly = כַּנֶּה (Amos 6:2; Isaiah 10:9; Ezekiel 27:23)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 10:10 He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.
  • Isaiah 10:9 We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.
  • Amos 6:2 But go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).