Lexical Definition

‎כָּנָף‎ kânâph (kaw-nawf') wing ^H:N-F
from ‎כָּנַף‎

[phrase] bird, border, corner, end, feather(-ed), [idiom] flying, [phrase] (one an-) other, overspreading, [idiom] quarters, skirt, [idiom] sort, uttermost part, wing(-ed).

• 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

1) wing, extremity, edge, winged, border, corner, shirt
1a) wing
1b) extremity
1b1) skirt, corner (of garment)

See Greek: ἄκρον · ἐγγίζω · ἱερός · κράσπεδον · πετεινόν · πτερύγιον · πτέρυξ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כָּנָף‎₁₀₉ noun feminine^{1Kgs 6:27} (masculine Ezek 7:2 Kt, but compare Qr and Co; also apparently 2Chr 3:11; 2Chr 3:13, but see Be), wing, extremity (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎כַּנְפָֿא‎, ; Zinjirli ‎אחז בכנף מראה‎, figurative for attached himself to the party of his lord, Panammu^{Inscr. l. 11,} compare Zech 8:23 (2 a below); DHM^{Sendsch. 58}; Arabic , Assyrian kappu, Ethiopic ); — absolute ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Gen 1:21 +; construct ‎כְּנַף‎ 1Kgs 6:24 +; suffix ‎כְּנָפִי‎ Ezek 16:8, ‎כְּנָפֶ֑ךָ‎ Ruth 3:9, ‎כְּנָפוֺ‎ Hag 2:12 dual ‎כְּנָפַיִם‎ 1Kgs 8:7 + (even of more than two, Isa 6:2 (twice in verse); Ezek 1:6; Ezek 1:21); construct ‎כַּנְפֵי‎ Exod 19:4 suffix ‎כְּנָפֶיךָ‎ Ezek 5:3, ‎כְּנָפַיִךְ‎ Jer 2:34, ‎כְּנָפָיו‎ Isa 8:8 +; ‎כְּנָפֶיהָ‎ Hos 4:19; Mal 3:20* ‎כַּנְפֵיהֶם‎ 1Kgs 6:27 +; ‎כַנְפֵיהֶן‎ Ezek 1:24; Ezek 1:25 plural construct ‎כַּנְפוֺת‎ Deut 22:12 + 4 t.; —

1. wing,
a. of birds Isa 10:14 (in figurative), Exod 19:4 (E ? R ? figurative) Deut 32:11 (in simile), Zech 5:9; Lev 1:17 (P), Job 39:13; Job 39:26; Ps 68:14* in figure of invading king Jer 48:40; Jer 49:22; Ezek 17:3; Ezek 17:7 so apparently Isa 8:8 of invader as overflowing river (but Du Che separate ‎וְהָיָה מֻטּוֺת כְּנָפָיו‎ from preceding); of riches, as flying away Prov 23:5 in phrase ‎צִפּוֺר כָּנָף‎ = winged birds Deut 4:17; Ps 148:10, ‎׳‎‎(עֵיט)צִפּוֺר כָּלכֿ‎ Ezek 39:4; Ezek 39:17, ‎׳‎‎כֹּל צִפּוֺר כָּלכֿ‎ Gen 7:14 (P), Ezek 17:23, ‎׳‎‎עוֺף כ‎ Gen 1:21 (P), Ps 78:27 also ‎׳‎‎בַּעַל כ‎ Prov 1:17 = winged thing, compare ‎בַּעַלהֿ֯כְּנָפַיִם‎ Eccl 10:20.
b. of insects (probably), ‎אֶרֶץ צִלְצַל כְּנָפָ֑יִם‎ Isa 18:1 buzzing, or humming of wings, i.e. Ethiopia, so called from its swarms of flies, with especial reference possibly to the tsetse-fly (so Du, compare Che; id., in general, Hi De; > Kn Di of the tropical shadow falling both ways; Thes^{1167 b of} noise of the wings of an army; reference to sails as wings — compare vIsa 18:2 — would be suitable, but ‎צִלְצַל‎ does not favour this).
c. of cherubim 1Kgs 6:24 (4 t. in verse) + 8 t. Kings, compare 2Chr 3:11 (4 t. in verse) + 6 t. Chronicles; Ezek 1:6 + 17 t. Ezekiel; Exod 25:20 (twice in verse); Exod 39:9 (twice in verse) (all P).
d. of seraphim Isa 6:2 (twice in verse).
e. of women in Zechariah's vision Zech 5:9 (twice in verse). feminine figurative of the wind, Hos 4:19; Ps 18:11* = 2Sam 22:11; Ps 104:3.
g. figurative of the dawn (winged sun-disc ?) Ps 139:9, compare of sun of righteousness Mal 3:20*.
h. figurative of ‎׳‎‎י‎, as protector of his people Ps 17:8; Ps 36:8*; Ps 57:2*; Ps 61:5*; Ps 63:3*; Ps 91:4; Ruth 2:12.

2. extremity: —
a. of garment = skirt, corner, or loose flowing end, 1Sam 15:27; 1Sam 24:5*; 1Sam 24:6*; 1Sam 24:12* (twice in verse); Deut 22:12; Deut 23:1*; Deut 27:20; (figurative), Ezek 5:3; Ezek 16:8 (in figurative), Hag 2:12 (twice in verse); Zech 8:23; Num 15:38 (twice in verse) (P; compare RS^{Sem, i. 416, 2nd ed. 437}).
b. of the earth, ‎מִכְּנַף הָאָרֶץ‎ Isa 24:16 from the end of the earth; elsewhere plural ‎׳‎‎כַּנְפוֺת הָא‎ Job 37:3; Job 38:13, and, def. ‎׳‎‎הא‎ ‎׳‎‎אַרְבַּע כ‎ Isa 11:12 the four corners of the earth; so of the holy land Ezek 7:2. — ‎עַלכְּֿנַף שִׁקּוּצִים מְשׁוֺמֵם‎ Dan 9:27 is obscure; Meinh reads, after Vrss., ‎כָּנָף‎, on the corner (of the altar) is a devastating abomination; < Kue^{Onderzoek 2, ii. 472} Bev, who read ‎עַלכַּֿנּוֺ‎ in its place, instead of it.

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