Lexical Definition

‎קֶנֶץ‎ qenets (keh'-nets) snare ^H:N-M
from an unused root probably meaning to wrench

end.

• perversion

1) snare, net
1a) meaning dubious

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎קֵ֫נֶץ‎ noun [masculine] snare, net (si vera lectio); — plural construct (Ges^{«GKC:130a»§ 130a}) ‎עַדאָֿ֫נָה תְּשִׂימוּן קִנְצֵי לְמִלִּין‎ Job 18:2 how long will ye lay snares for words (catch at words, talk without knowledge)? so Castle JDMich and most, but sense strange; Vrss translate end, so Thes and others (explanation ‎קנצי‎ [very dubious] as Aramaic), read then ‎קֵץ‎ (with singular verb, after ᵐ5), Me Bi Siegf Du, and strike out ‎עַדאָֿנָה‎ Du.

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