H3641: כַּלְנֶה
Kalneh · pronounced kal-neh' · “Calneh”
Definition
Calneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire
KJV translates it as: Calneh, Calno. Compare H3656 (כַּנֶּה).
Word origin: or כַּלְנֵה; also כַּלְנוֹ; of foreign derivation;
Extended definition
§ Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu"
a city of Babylonia named among the cities of Nimrod
maybe modern 'Niffer'
a city of Babylonia named among the cities of Nimrod
maybe modern 'Niffer'
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3641 is translated
- calneh ×2
- is calneh ×1
Bible verses with H3641 (Kalneh)
Kalneh appears in 3 verses.
- Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- Amos 6:2
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?