קְנָתQᵉnâth

proper name [of a location]: East of Jordan (Numbers 32:42; 1 Chronicles 2:23)

Pronunciation: ken-awth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7079

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 32:42 Meanwhile, a man named Nobah captured the town of Kenath and its surrounding villages, and he renamed that area Nobah after himself.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:23 (But Geshur and Aram captured the Towns of Jair and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

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).