Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4349
מָכוֹן
makonmaw-kone'
foundation
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâkôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4349is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4349
properly, a fixture, i.e. a basis; generally a place, especially as an abode
The King James renders it: foundation, habitation, (dwelling-, settled) place.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
makon is rendered "foundation". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:17You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
Exodus 15:17מָכ֧וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- place of4
- from place of3
- a place2
- foundation of2
- place2
- and a place1
- foundations its1
- in place my1
- place its1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מְכ֣וֹן4
- מְכ֤וֹן2
- מִמְּכ֣וֹן2
- בִמְכוֹנִ֑י1
- וּמָכ֥וֹן1
- מְכ֨וֹן1
- מְכ֥וֹן1
- מָכ֧וֹן1
- מָכ֥וֹן1
- מְכוֹנֽוֹ׃1
- מְכוֹנֶ֑יהָ1
- מִֽמְּכוֹן־1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)8HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
Exodus
one use
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
- מָכ֧וֹןmakhonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a place
1 Kings
four uses
I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
- מָכ֥וֹןmakhonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a place
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
- מְכ֤וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: place of
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
- מְכ֣וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: place
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
- מְכ֣וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: place
2 Chronicles
four uses
and I have built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
- וּמָכ֥וֹןumakhonconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a place
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—
- מְכ֤וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: place of
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
- מִמְּכ֣וֹןmimekhonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from place of
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
- מִמְּכ֣וֹןmimekhonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from place of
Ezra
one use
When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
- מְכוֹנֽוֹ׃mekhononoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place its
Psalms
four uses
From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
- מִֽמְּכוֹן־mimekhon-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from place of
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
- מְכ֣וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: foundation of
Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
- מְכ֣וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: foundation of
He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
- מְכוֹנֶ֑יהָmekhoneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: foundations its
Isaiah
two uses
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- מְכ֨וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: place of
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
- בִמְכוֹנִ֑יvimkhonipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: in place my
Daniel
one use
It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
- מְכ֥וֹןmekhonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: place of
The letters
Gematria 116· 766 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.