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H3641

כלנה

כלנה
kalanah

Proper locative noun · Of foreign derivation

Or כלנה Kalnêh; also כלנו Kalnôw; of foreign derivation; Calneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire:—Calneh, Calno. Compare H3656.

Outline

  1. Calneh or Calno = "fortress of Anu"
    1. a city of Babylonia named among the cities of Nimrod
      1. maybe modern 'Niffer'
    2. an Assyrian city near Aleppo
      1. maybe same as 1 since it was captured by Assyria in the 8th century BC

Usages

Genesis 10:10

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Breakdown

Shinar modern-day Iraq.

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Isaiah 10:9

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

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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?

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