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כּוּן

kun · to establish: establish

Hebrew · Strong's H3559 · Verb · Sounds like: koon · 217 occurrences

English

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to establish: establish H3559H · a Meaning of 99
  • to establish: prepare H3559A 88
  • to establish: make H3559I · a Meaning of 14
  • to establish: right H3559K · a Meaning of 12
  • to establish: commit H3559J · a Meaning of 3
  • blow H3559B 1

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous); certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, [idiom] very deed.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[כּוּן] 218 vb. prob. be firm, only in der. conj.
Niph.
1. be set up, established, fixed
2. in a moral sense, be directed aright, of ways
3. prepare, be ready
4. pass. be prepared, of judgments
Hiph.
1. establish, set up
2.
a. fix, so as to be ready, make ready, prepare, a gift
b. provide for, provide, furnish
3. direct one's face toward
4. arrange, order
Hoph.
1. be established, of throne
2. be prepared for
Po‛lēl.
1. set up, establish
2. constitute, make, a man (in womb)
3. fix, so as to be ready
4. direct
Po‛lal. be established
Hithpo‛l. be established
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
נָכוֹן n. [m.] = blow Jb 12:5

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 7:3 וְהָכִ֨ינוּ ve.ha.Khi.nu · A command to all of you: causing it

    And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto Jehovah with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

  2. 1 Samuel 13:13 הֵכִ֨ין he.Khin · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

  3. 1 Samuel 20:31 תִכּ֖וֹן ti.Kon · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

  4. 1 Samuel 23:22 הָכִ֣ינוּ ha.Khi.nu · A command to all of you: causing it

    Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.

  5. 1 Samuel 23:23 נָכ֔וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action

    See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

  6. 1 Samuel 26:4 נָכֽוֹן׃ na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action

    David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.

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