כּוּן
kun
be firm
Strong's H3559NounHebrewTWOT 1364c

כּוּן (kun) is a Hebrew noun meaning be firm. It appears 219 times in 27 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3559).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1364c)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1364c)blow; be erect, set up, establish, fix, prepare, apply, appoint, render sure, proper, prosperous; certain, certainty, confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נָכוֹן noun, masculine: blow

Strong's H3559 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)
KJV: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, × very deed.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1364: נָכָה nākâ — smite; be smitten down; strike, beat, give a thrust, attack, attack and destroy, chastise, send judgment upon, destroying; be smitten; cast forth, clap, give, kill, make, murderer, punish, slaughter, slay, slayer, slaying, smiter…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 41:32Exodus 15:17Numbers 21:27

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