קנה

קָנֶהm. (b. h.; cmp. קָנַן) calamus, reed; anything resembling a reed, branch of a candlestick; windpipe Cant. R. to I, 6 (legend about the origin of Rome) ירד … ק׳ גדולוכ׳ Michael the archangel came down and planted a large reed in the sea Taan.20a לעולם … רך כק׳וכ׳ man must at all times be yielding like a reed and not unbending like a cedar, v. קוֹלְמוֹס. Tosef.Sabb. XII (XIII), 14 ק׳ של מנורה the branch of a candlestick; Sabb.47a קְנֵה מנורה; Y. ib. XII, 13c קְנֵי. Ib. ק׳ של ציידין a part of the composite pole which the hunters use (to reach the nests); Bab. l. c. קְ׳ סיידין of the whitewashers; Tosef. l. c. ציידין (Var. ס׳). Ker.5a קְנֵה בשם sweet calamus. Kel. XVII, 16 קְ׳ מאזניים the beam of the balance. Ib. ק׳ של עניוכ׳ the poor mans cane which has a receptacle for water.דחה בק׳, v. דָּחָה.Ber.61a bot. ק׳ מוציא קול the windpipe produces sound. Ḥull.21b; Zeb.65b עד שמגיע … לק׳ until he reaches (with his nail) the gullet or the windpipe. Ḥull.28b (in Chald. dict.) נבדקיה לק׳וכ׳ let him examine the windpipe and cut it Men.XI, 6 עשרים … כחצי ק׳ חלול twenty-eight staves shaped like a segment of a hollow reed; a. fr.Ohol. I, 8 ק׳ = קְנֵה זרוע forearm.קְנֵה שפה, v. קָמָה.הושיט בק׳ (to hold forth on a cane, to treat lightly, consider unimportant. Num. R. s. 8 end דבר … והושיטו לו בק׳ (not והושיטה) something for which that ancestor prostrated himself in prayer (Gen. 28:20) …, and now comes this man (Aquila) and holds it up to contempt!; Yalk. Gen. 123; Gen. R. s. 70. Ib. את מושיטו לזה בק׳ dost thou make it appear contemptible to this man?; Koh. R. to VII, 8.Pl. קָנִים, קָנִין. Men. l. c. Ib. סידור ק׳ the arrangement of the staves between the cakes of the show-bread. Kel. XVII, 17, a. fr. מחצלת ק׳ a reed mat. Ex. R. s. 35 (ref. to Ps. 68:31) חיה הדרה בין הק׳ the beast that dwells among the reeds (Rome, v. Cant. R. to I, 6, quoted above). Gen. R. s. 1 עשיר … לק׳ he is a rich man and needs no reeds (for his house); הרי הוא צריך לקְנֵי המדה he still needs the measuring rods; a. fr.