קֵינִיQêynîy
of II.
Pronunciation: kay-nee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7017
Meanings
קַיִן 1, elsewhere as name of a people collective ׳ הַקּ settled among Amalekites (Judges 4:11; Judges 4:17; Judges 5:24; Judges 1:16; Numbers 24:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 15:19 the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
- Numbers 24:21 Then he looked over toward the Kenites and delivered this message: “Your home is secure; your nest is set in the rocks.
- Judges 1:16 When the tribe of Judah left Jericho—the city of palms—the Kenites, who were descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, traveled with them into the wilderness of Judah. They settled among the people there, near the town of Arad in the Negev.
- Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, a descendant of Moses’ brother-in-law Hobab, had moved away from the other members of his tribe and pitched his tent by the oak of Zaanannim near Kedesh.
- Judges 4:17 Meanwhile, Sisera ran to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because Heber’s family was on friendly terms with King Jabin of Hazor.
- Judges 5:24 “Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. May she be blessed above all women who live in tents.
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).