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כַּלְנֶה Calneh

Every verse in which this name stands — 3 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PlaceGematria 106×3 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

A place in the Assyrian empire. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 10:10 and last at Amos 6:2.

Genesis 10:10בראשית י:י

וַתְּהִי רֵאשִׁית מַמְלַכְתּוֹ בָּבֶל וְאֶרֶךְ וְאַכַּד וְכַלְנֵה בְּאֶרֶץ שִׁנְעָֽר

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Isaiah 10:9ישעיהו י:ט

הֲלֹא כְּכַרְכְּמִישׁ כַּלְנוֹ אִם־לֹא כְאַרְפַּד חֲמָת אִם־לֹא כְדַמֶּשֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן

Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Amos 6:2עמוס ו:ב

עִבְרוּ כַֽלְנֵה וּרְאוּ וּלְכוּ מִשָּׁם חֲמַת רַבָּה וּרְדוּ גַת־פְּלִשְׁתּים הֲטוֹבִים מִן־הַמַּמְלָכוֹת הָאֵלֶּה אִם־רַב גְּבוּלָם מִגְּבֻלְכֶֽם

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see, And from thence go ye to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines; Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border? .

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Calneh?

Calneh — כלנו in Hebrew — has a gematria of 106 in the standard method.

How many times is Calneh named in the Tanakh?

3 times, first at Genesis 10:10.

A spelling is not a name. The written word כלנו stands 15 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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