H7017 קֵינִי (Qêynîy) kay-nee'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine)

Quick Definition

Kenite

Biblical Persons & Places

Kenite Ancestors of Heber@Jdg.4.11- or Hobab@Num.10.29-Jdg

Ancestors of Heber or Hobab, first mentioned at Gen.15.19; referred to as Kenite (קֵינִי), or Kenite (קַ֫יִן).

Strong's Definition

a Kenite or member of the tribe of Kajin

Derivation: or קִינִי; (1 Chronicles 2:55), patronymic from H7014 (קַיִן);

KJV Usage: Kenite.

TWOT Reference: 2016

Outline of Biblical Usage

Kenite = "smiths"

1) the tribe from which the father-in-law of Moses was a member and which lived in the area between southern Palestine and the mountains of Sinai

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

קֵינִי (qe.ni) — Kenite. Ancestors of Heber (H2268H) or Hobab (H2246), first mentioned at Gen.15.19 Also named: qa.yin (קַ֫יִן "Kenite" H7014) § Kenite = "smiths" the tribe from which the father-in-law of Moses was a member and which lived in the area between southern Palestine and the mountains of Sinai

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

קֵינִי (H7017)

adj · קַיִן · קִינָה

Names of Groups | ≈ קַיִן

Kenite = ethnic group; ◄ possibly descendants of Cain; ► ally of Israel; associated with Moses' father-in-law

GEN 15:19 · NUM 24:21 · JDG 1:16 · JDG 4:11 · JDG 4:17 · JDG 4:17 · JDG 5:24 · 1SA 15:6 · 1SA 15:6 · 1SA 27:10 · 1SA 30:29 · 1CH 2:55

Graham S. Ogden

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

קֵינִי adj.gent. (dwelling in N. Isr.); elsewhere as n.gent.coll. settled among Amal. base

Bible Occurrences (10)

15:19

24:21

1:16 4:11 4:17 5:24

15:6 27:10 30:29

2:55

Genesis 15:19

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Numbers 24:21

Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.

Judges 1:16

Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.

Judges 4:11

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

Judges 4:17

Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judges 5:24

Most blessed among women [is] Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

1 Samuel 15:6

And he warned... the Kenites, Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites... when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them. So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 27:10

who... would ask him, What have you raided today...? And David... would reply, The Negev of Judah, or The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or The Negev of the Kenites.”