כנסיה
Hebrew
Alternative forms
- כנסייה (excessive spelling)
Etymology
Compare Arabic كَنِيسَة (kanīsa).
Pronunciation
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /kneː.sijˈjɔː/ [kʰa.neː.siɟˈɟɔː]
- (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /kə.ne.sijˈjɔ/ [kʰæ.neː.sijˈjɔː]
- (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA(key): /ke.ne.siˈja/ (West), /ke.ne.sijˈja/ (East)
- (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA(key): /kə.neː.siˈjɔ/, /kə.nej.siˈjɔ/
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /knesiˈja/
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Noun
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
| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | 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
- כְּנֵסִיָּתִי (knesiyatí, “ecclesiastical”)
Related terms
- בֵּית כְּנֶסֶת (bet knéset, “synagogue”)
- מִסְגָּד (misgád, “mosque”)
References
- 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[2], 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
- כנסיה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he