noun · feminine
kana
Strong’sG2580
Cana
stem kan-4 times in the New Testament3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Κανά (Rec. -νᾶ), ἡ, indecl.,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2580 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkan-ah'
Cana, a place in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin (compare );
King JamesCana.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
indecl.,
Cana, of Galilee:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kana | kana |
| object accusative | kana1×Κανὰ | kana |
| direct address vocative | kana | kana |
| of, belonging to genitive | kana1×Κανὰ | kana |
| to, for dative | kana2×Κανὰ | kana |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kana“Cana”objectaccusative singular1×
John 4:46Erchata oun palin eis tan Kana tau Galilaiau, hopou poiata tem hudem …So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned …
kana“Cana”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 21:2… legorōntos Didumos kai Nathanaēl tos apo Kana tau Galilaiau kai tois tou Zebedaiou …… Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee …
kana“Cana”to, fordative singular2×
John 2:1… hēmera ta trita gamos geneta en Kana tau Galilaiau, kai ate tas mētēras …… day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
John 2:11… archan teiu sēmeiu tos Iēsus en Kana tau Galilaiau kai fanerata tan doxan …… the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His …