Bible word study

Kanaph (Strong’s H3671): Meaning in the Bible

Kanaph (כָּנָף) is the Hebrew word numbered H3671 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as an edge or extremity; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bedclothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinnacle. In the King James Bible it is translated bird, border, corner, end, feather(-ed).

• Original wordכָּנָף
• Transliterationkânâph
• Pronunciationkaw-nawf'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH3671
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H3670;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kanaph appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kanaph (H3671) stands behind 107 English renderings in 84 verses across 22 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (26), 1 Kings (12), Psalms (12).

How the King James Bible renders Kanaph, by count

• wings60 of 107 (56 percent)
• wing13 of 107 (12 percent)
• skirt12 of 107 (11 percent)
• borders2 of 107 (2 percent)
• corners2 of 107 (2 percent)
• ends2 of 107 (2 percent)

Three places to read Kanaph

• Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
• Job 37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
• Ezekiel 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kanaph in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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