啃
kěn
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How is 啃 read in the Chinese Bible?
啃 is read kěn in the Chinese Union Version. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses across 2 books, first in Job 30:3.
- Occurrences
- 3
- Verses
- 3
- Books
- 2
- First in
- Job 30:3
Words it forms in the Bible
- 啃kěn× 3to gnaw
Meaning: to gnaw, to chew, to bite
In the text
- Job 30:3
他们因穷乏饥饿，身体枯瘦， 在荒废凄凉的幽暗中啃干燥之地，
- Job 30:17
夜间，我里面的骨头刺我， 疼痛不止，好像啃我。
- Ezekiel 23:34
你必喝这杯，以致喝尽。 杯破又啃杯片， 撕裂自己的乳； 因为这事我曾说过。 这是主耶和华说的。
Reading checked against CC-CEDICT, for the character or the word it sits in.
Rare: outside the 3,500 level-1 characters of the 通用规范汉字表 (2013), China’s official list of common characters. For learners: common by that list, but in no HSK 3.0 word of levels 1–6.