כנסיה
Appearance
Hebrew
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /knesiˈja/
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Noun
[edit]כנסיה / כְּנֵסִיָּה • (knesiyá) f (plural indefinite כנסייות / כְּנֵסִיּוֹת, singular construct כנסיית / כְּנֵסִיַת־, plural construct כנסייות / כְּנֵסִיּוֹת־)
- (Mishnaic Hebrew) gathering, union
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) church
- 2009 March 11, "כנסייה מהתקופה הביזנטית התגלתה ליד נס הרים" (online news article: k'nesiá mehat'kufá habizántit hitgaltá l'yád nes harím, "A church from the Byzantine period was discovered next to Nes Harim"), Haaretz.
Declension
[edit]Declension of כְּנֵסִיָּה
Number | Isolated forms | With possessive pronouns | |||||
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State | Form | Person | singular | plural | |||
m. | f. | m. | f. | ||||
singular | indefinite | כְּנֵסִיָּה | first | כְּנֵסִיָּתִי | כְּנֵסִיָּתֵנוּ | ||
definite | הַכְּנֵסִיָּה | second | כְּנֵסִיָּתְךָ | כְּנֵסִיָּתֵךְ | כְּנֵסִיַתְכֶם | כְּנֵסִיַתְכֶן | |
construct | כְּנֵסִיַת־ | third | כְּנֵסִיָּתוֹ | כְּנֵסִיָּתָהּ | כְּנֵסִיָּתָם | כְּנֵסִיָּתָן | |
plural | indefinite | כְּנֵסִיּוֹת | first | כנסיותיי / כְּנֵסִיּוֹתַי | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתֵינוּ | ||
definite | הַכְּנֵסִיּוֹת | second | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתֶיךָ | כנסיותייך / כְּנֵסִיּוֹתַיִךְ | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתֵיכֶם | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתֵיכֶן | |
construct | כְּנֵסִיּוֹת־ | third | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתָיו | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתֶיהָ | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתָם | כְּנֵסִיּוֹתָן |
Derived terms
[edit]- כְּנֵסִיָּתִי (knesiyatí, “ecclesiastical”)
Related terms
[edit]- בֵּית כְּנֶסֶת (bet knéset, “synagogue”)
- מִסְגָּד (misgád, “mosque”)
References
[edit]- Klein, Ernest (1987) “כְּנֵסִיָּה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 280c
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 650a
- “כנסיה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
[edit]כנסיה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he