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Strong's #3641: Kalneh (pronounced kal-neh')

or Kalneh {kal-nay'}; also Kalnow {kal-no'}; of foreign derivation; Calneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire:-- Calneh, Calno. Compare 3656.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ / ּ

kalneh / kalnêh / kalnô

Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu"

1) a city of Babylonia named among the cities of Nimrod

1a) maybe modern ' Niffer'

2) an Assyrian city near Aleppo

2a) maybe same as 1 since it was captured by Assyria in the 8th century BC

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: of foreign derivation



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Genesis 10:10: "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? Samaria"
Amos 6:2: "Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath"









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