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קְנֵי קַנְיָה   n.m./f.  reed


  reed  Com.   ܕܒܸܣܡܵܐ‏ : sweet calamus  JLAtg, PTA, Syr, LJLA. staff: a measuring unit of length 6 or 7 cubits  Qumran, JLAtg, Syr, JBAg. elbow, cubit  Syr, LJLA. branch of candelabrum [Hebraism]  JLAtg, PTA, Sam, Syr, LJLA.

Note that in the Biblical text the "staff" is explicitly 6 cubits while at Qumran it is 7.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 496b; DJBA: 1028b; Jastrow: 1392; Levy Ch-W: 2:371; Tal Sam: 786; Cook,Qumran: 210;

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