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Strong’s H3655 · Hebrew

כָּנָה

kânâh · kaw-naw'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to address by an additional name; hence, to eulogize

In the King James Version give flattering titles, surname (himself).

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
  2. Job 32:22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
  3. Isaiah 44:5One shall say, I am the LORD’S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
  4. Isaiah 45:4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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