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:
Jeremiah 51:15: "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven"
Ezekiel 4:3: "of iron between and set thy face against it, and it shall be"
Ezekiel 4:7: " Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy"
Ezekiel 7:14: "They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for"
Ezekiel 16:7: "to excellent thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked"
Ezekiel 28:13: "the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created."
Ezekiel 38:7: " Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be"
Ezekiel 38:7: "Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be"
Ezekiel 40:43: "were hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables"
Hosea 6:3: "the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; unto us as the rain, as the latter"
Amos 4:12: "and because I will do this unto thee, prepare thy God, O Israel."
Micah 4:1: "of the house of the LORD shall be established of the mountains, and it shall be exalted"
Nahum 2:3: "shall be with flaming in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken."
Nahum 2:5: "they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared."
Habakkuk 2:12: "to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!"
Zephaniah 1:7: "of the LORD is at hand: the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests."
Zechariah 5:11: "it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set upon her own base."
