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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Kana, Cana


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Cana Cana, Kana Kana

Kana is the name of a stream between the territories of Ephraim and Mannasseh (Josh 16:8) and of a town of Asher near Sidon (Josh 19:29). The latter became known in the New Testament as Cana, as is most celebrated as the town where Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine (John 2:1). Cana is also the home of Nathanael who Jesus found under the fig tree (John 21:2, 1:48).

BDB, NOBSE and Jones all agree: Kana comes from qaneh (qaneh 2040a), reed, stalk. These places were probably named Kana because of the reed that grew there. The most notable symbolic use of the reed occurs in Isa 42:3, "A bruised reed He will not break."

Related names are Cain and Elkanah.



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