Kenizzites

A Canaanite tribe in the Promised Land

A written article for Kenizzites is still to come. Below and alongside: where Kenizzites appears in Scripture, with the original words and any dates on record.

Original word

  • קְנִזִּי kenezite, kenizzites
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Where Kenizzites appears in Scripture

Genesis 15

אֶת-הַקֵּינִי וְאֶת-הַקְּנִזִּי וְאֵת הַקַּדְמֹנִֽי׃
19
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

Numbers 32

בִּלְתִּי כָּלֵב בֶּן-יְפֻנֶּה הַקְּנִזִּי וִֽיהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן-נוּן כִּי מִלְאוּ אַֽחֲרֵי יְהוָֽה׃
12
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.

Joshua 14

וַיִּגְּשׁוּ בְנֵֽי-יְהוּדָה אֶל-יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בַּגִּלְגָּל וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו כָּלֵב בֶּן-יְפֻנֶּה הַקְּנִזִּי אַתָּה יָדַעְתָּ אֶֽת-הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר-דִּבֶּר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה אִישׁ-הָֽאֱלֹהִים עַל אֹֽדוֹתַי וְעַל אֹֽדוֹתֶיךָ בְּקָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵֽעַ׃
6
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
עַל-כֵּן הָיְתָֽה-חֶבְרוֹן לְכָלֵב בֶּן-יְפֻנֶּה הַקְּנִזִּי לְֽנַחֲלָה עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יַעַן אֲשֶׁר מִלֵּא אַֽחֲרֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
14
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.