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)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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Joshua 4:4 הֵכִ֖ין he.Khin · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
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Joshua 8:4 נְכֹנִֽים׃ ne.kho.Nim · An -ing word: receiving the action
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
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Judges 12:6 יָכִין֙ ya.Khin · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.
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Judges 16:26 נָכ֣וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action
and Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them.
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Judges 16:29 נָכ֣וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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2 Samuel 5:12 הֱכִינ֧וֹ he.khi.No · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
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2 Samuel 7:12 וַהֲכִינֹתִ֖י va.ha.khi.no.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me
When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
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2 Samuel 7:13 וְכֹנַנְתִּ֛י ve.kho.nan.Ti · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by me
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
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2 Samuel 7:16 נָכ֖וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
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2 Samuel 7:24 וַתְּכ֣וֹנֵֽן va.te.Kho.nen · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by you
And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
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2 Samuel 7:26 נָכ֖וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of thy servant David shall be established before thee.
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1 Kings 2:12 וַתִּכֹּ֥ן va.ti.Kon · An action: receiving the action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
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1 Kings 2:24 הֱכִינַ֗נִי he.khi.Na.ni · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Now therefore as Jehovah liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
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1 Kings 2:45 נָכ֛וֹן na.Khon · An -ing word: receiving the action
But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah for ever.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

