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Strong's #3559: kuwn (pronounced koon)

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, X very deed.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kûn

1) to be firm, be stable, be established

1a) (Niphal)

1a1) to be set up, be established, be fixed

1a1a) to be firmly established

1a1b) to be established, be stable, be secure, be enduring

1a1c) to be fixed, be securely determined

1a2) to be directed aright, be fixed aright, be steadfast

1a3) to prepare, be ready

1a4) to be prepared, be arranged, be settled

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to establish, set up, accomplish, do, make firm

1b2) to fix, make ready, prepare, provide, provide for, furnish

1b3) to direct toward (moral sense)

1b4) to arrange, order

1c) (Hophal)

1c1) to be established, be fastened

1c2) to be prepared, be ready

1d) (Polel)

1d1) to set up, establish

1d2) to constitute, make

1d3) to fix

1d4) to direct

1e) (Pulal) to be established, be prepared

1f) (Hithpolel) to be established, be restored

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 217 times:

Job 12:5: " He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease."
Job 15:23: "that the day of darkness is ready at his hand."
Job 15:35: "and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit."
Job 18:12: "shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side."
Job 21:8: "Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes."
Job 27:16: "he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;"
Job 27:17: " He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver."
Job 28:27: "Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out."
Job 29:7: "to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!"
Job 31:15: "me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?"
Job 38:41: "Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto"
Job 42:7: "ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job"
Job 42:8: "in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job."
Psalms 5:9: "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open"
Psalms 7:9: "let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God"
Psalms 7:12: "his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
Psalms 7:13: " He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors."
Psalms 8:3: "the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;"
Psalms 9:7: "But the LORD shall endure forever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment."
Psalms 10:17: "thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:"
Psalms 11:2: "the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon that they may privily"
Psalms 21:12: "Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face"
Psalms 24:2: "hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods."
Psalms 37:23: "The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way."
Psalms 38:17: "For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before"
Psalms 40:2: "clay, and set my feet upon and established my goings."
Psalms 48:8: "in the city God will establish it forever. Selah."
Psalms 51:10: "heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within"
Psalms 57:6: " They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before"
Psalms 57:7: "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise."
Psalms 57:7: "is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise."
Psalms 59:4: "They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold."
Psalms 65:6: "Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:"
Psalms 65:9: "of God, which is full thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided"
Psalms 65:9: "them corn, when thou hast so provided"
Psalms 68:9: "a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary."
Psalms 68:10: "Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor."
Psalms 74:16: "is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun."
Psalms 78:8: "and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, was not"
Psalms 78:20: "bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?"
Psalms 78:37: "For their heart was not right was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant."
Psalms 87:5: "was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish"
Psalms 89:2: "shall be built up forever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens."
Psalms 89:4: "Thy seed will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations."
Psalms 89:21: "With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen"
Psalms 89:37: " It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah."
Psalms 90:17: "our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands us; yea, the work"
Psalms 90:17: "us; yea, the work of our hands establish"
Psalms 93:1: "wherewith he hath girded himself: also is established, that it cannot be moved."
Psalms 93:2: "Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting."









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