# H3665 כָּנַע

כָּנַע (kânaʻ), Strong’s H3665: properly, to bend the knee; hence, to humiliate, vanquish KJV: bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.. Occurs 36 times.

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*kânaʻ* — properly, to bend the knee; hence, to humiliate, vanquish

KJV: bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.

Occurs 36 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [כָּנַע] vb. be humble, only in der. conj.
- Niph.
- 1 reflex. humble oneself
- 2 pass. be humbled, subdued
- Hiph.
- 1 humble
- 2 subdue enemies

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 26:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=41) — I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is…
- [Deuteronomy 9:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/9?v=3) — Know therefore today that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them…
- [Judges 3:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=30) — So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.
- [Judges 4:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/4?v=23) — So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
- [Judges 8:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=28) — So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty…
- [Judges 11:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/11?v=33) — He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great…
- [1 Samuel 7:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/7?v=13) — So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. The LORD’s hand was against the…
- [2 Samuel 8:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/8?v=1) — After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand…
- [1 Kings 21:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=29) — “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days…
- [2 Kings 22:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=19) — because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place…