STRONGS G2580:
Κανά (
Κανά WH; cf.
Tdf. Proleg., p. 103;
Winer's Grammar, § 6, 1 m.),
ἡ (
Buttmann, 21 (19)),
Cana, indeclinable (
Winer's Grammar, 61 (60); but dative
Κανά Rec.st in
John 2:1,
11), proper name of a village of Galilee about three hours distant from Nazareth toward the northwest, surviving at present in a place (partly uninhabited and partly ruinous) called Kana el-Jelil; cf. Robinson, Biblical Researches, ii. 346f; also his Later Biblical Researches, p. 108; cf. Ewald, Gesch. Christus as above with, p. 147 (1st edition); Rüetschi in
Herzog vii. 234; (Porter in Alex.'s Kitto under the word. Several recent writers are inclined to reopen the question of the identification of Cana; see e. g.
B. D. American edition under the word; Zeller, in Quart. Statem. of Palest. Expl. Fund, No. iii., p. 71f; Arnaud, Palestine, p. 412f; Conder, Tent Work etc. i. 150f)
John 2:1,
11;
John 4:46;
John 21:2.
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