Strong's Hebrew · H3665
H3665 kânaʻ
כָּנַע
kaw-nah'
be humble
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kânaʻ appears 36 times in Scripture, including Leviticus 26:41 and Deuteronomy 9:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to bend the knee; hence, to humiliate, vanquish
In the King James Version
bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 36 times in Scripture
“So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.”
“So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.”
“and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,”
“He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.”
“But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.”
“In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,”
“With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.”
“On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.”
“Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.”
“because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
