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Word Study · Strong's H3559 · Hebrew

כּוּן

kun

koon

Strong's 1890 spelling: kûwn

properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

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.

  • 217
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 27 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 163
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 217 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 163

  • נָכ֣וֹן11
  • הֵכִ֣ין7
  • נָכ֖וֹן5
  • הֵכִ֣ינוּ3
  • וְהָכֵ֥ן3
  • יָכִ֥ין3
  • נָכ֥וֹן3
  • תִּכּ֣וֹן3
  • תָּכִ֥ין3
  • תָּכִ֣ין3
  • הֵכִ֖ין2
  • הֵכִ֥ין2

and 151 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 131

  • and I will establish6
  • and prepare6
  • established6
  • it is established6
  • [is] steadfast5
  • he had prepared5
  • I have prepared5
  • it will be established5
  • [is] established4
  • and it was arranged4
  • prepare4
  • prepared4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 81

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular28
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular18
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singular8
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 1st person common singular7
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular6
  • verb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 2nd person masculine singular6
  • verb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person common plural6
  • Hc/Vhq1cs5
  • Hc/Vhw3mp5
  • Hc/VNw3fs5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVNrmsa · 28
  • HVhp3ms · 18
  • HVNi3fs · 8
  • HVhp1cs · 7
  • HVNi3ms · 7
  • HC/Vhv2ms · 6
  • HVhi2ms · 6
  • HVhi3ms · 6
  • HVhp3cp · 6
  • Hc/Vhq1cs · 5
  • Hc/Vhw3mp · 5
  • Hc/VNw3fs · 5

All 217, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis3 occurrences
Exodus7 occurrences
Numbers3 occurrences
Deuteronomy4 occurrences
Joshua5 occurrences
Judges3 occurrences
1 Samuel6 occurrences
2 Samuel6 occurrences
1 Kings6 occurrences
1 Chronicles24 occurrences
2 Chronicles26 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Esther2 occurrences
Job15 occurrences
Psalms52 occurrences
Proverbs19 occurrences
Isaiah10 occurrences
Jeremiah7 occurrences
Ezekiel8 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Micah1 occurrence
Nahum2 occurrences
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled כּוּן

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).