H3559Hebrewnāḵôn

כּוּן

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)

215
Total Occurrences
27
Books
215
Old Testament
0
New Testament

Strong’s Definition

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)

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

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.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

  • 1.to be firm, be stable, be established
  • 2.(niphal)
  • 3.(hiphil)
  • 4.(hophal)
  • 5.(polel)
  • 6.(pulal) to be established, be prepared
  • 7.(hithpolel) to be established, be restored

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: kûwn; Pronunciation: koon