כּוּן
kûwn · koon
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: 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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
The open hand that covers that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כּוּן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
217 occurrences · 217 OT · 0 NT · 163 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall be established12 · 13%
- and prepare10 · 11%
- had prepared6 · 7%
- is established5 · 6%
- be established5 · 6%
- prepared5 · 6%
- is fixed4 · 4%
- prepare4 · 4%
- was prepared4 · 4%
- and i will establish3 · 3%
- to prepare3 · 3%
- and prepared2 · 2%
- he hath established2 · 2%
- certain2 · 2%
- is prepared2 · 2%
- and be ready2 · 2%
- and established2 · 2%
- that he had prepared2 · 2%
- because he prepared2 · 2%
- was established2 · 2%
- and i will stablish2 · 2%
- hath prepared2 · 2%
- had established2 · 2%
- firm2 · 2%
- have established2 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.