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כּוּן

kun · to establish: establish

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

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. Jeremiah 51:15 מֵכִ֥ין me.Khin · An -ing word: causing it

    He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

  2. Ezekiel 4:3 וַהֲכִינֹתָה֩ va.ha.khi.no.Tah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by you

    And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  3. Ezekiel 4:7 תָּכִ֣ין ta.Khin · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.

  4. Ezekiel 7:14 וְהָכִ֣ין ve.ha.Khin · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goeth to the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

  5. Ezekiel 16:7 נָכֹ֙נוּ֙ na.Kho.nu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    I caused thee to multiply as that which groweth in the field, and thou didst increase and wax great, and thou attainedst to excellent ornament; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare.

  6. Ezekiel 28:13 כּוֹנָֽנוּ׃ ko.Na.nu · An action: strong action received, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

  7. Ezekiel 38:7 הִכֹּן֙ hi.Kon · A command to you: receiving the action

    Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

  8. Ezekiel 38:7 וְהָכֵ֣ן ve.ha.Khen · A command to you: causing it

    Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

  9. Ezekiel 40:43 מוּכָנִ֥ים mu.kha.Nim · An -ing word: being caused, it is done to the subject

    And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the oblation.

  10. Hosea 6:3 נָכ֣וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

  11. Amos 4:12 הִכּ֥וֹן hi.Kon · A command to you: receiving the action

    Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

  12. Micah 4:1 נָכוֹן֙ na.khOn · An -ing word: receiving the action

    But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it.

  13. Nahum 2:3 הֲכִינ֑וֹ ha.khi.No · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are brandished.

  14. Nahum 2:5 וְהֻכַ֖ן ve.hu.Khan · An action: being caused, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

  15. Habakkuk 2:12 וְכוֹנֵ֥ן ve.kho.Nen · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

  16. Zephaniah 1:7 הֵכִ֧ין he.Khin · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand: for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath consecrated his guests.

  17. Zechariah 5:11 וְהוּכַ֛ן ve.hu.Khan · An action: being caused, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

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