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H3665Hebrew

כָּנַע

Definition and meaning

kana` (kaw-nah') v. 1. (properly) to bend the knee 2. (hence) to humiliate, vanquish [a primitive root] KJV: bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.

Tagged KJV passages

32 matching verses - 37.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

2 Chronicles 34:27

Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

Matched English: humble, humbledst
2 Chronicles 36:12

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

Matched English: humbled
Nehemiah 9:24

So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

Matched English: subduedst
Job 40:12

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Matched English: low
Psalms 81:14

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Matched English: subdued
Psalms 106:42

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Matched English: subjection
Psalms 107:12

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

Matched English: down
Isaiah 25:5

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

Matched English: down