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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Kana, Cana
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Cain Cainan Calah Caleb Calneh Cana Canaan Caphtor/ -im Casluhim Chaldeans Chesed Cozbi Cush |
Cana
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). |
, Kana 
(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." 
