כֵּן
kên · kane
a stand, i.e. pedestal or station
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H3651 (כֵּן), used as a noun;
a stand, i.e. pedestal or station
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: base, estate, foot, office, place, well.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- 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 › the seed, life continuing
The open hand that covers of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כֵּן 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
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and his foot7 · 41%
- in his estate2 · 12%
- thee unto thy place1 · 6%
- unto mine office1 · 6%
- and the foot1 · 6%
- there was a base1 · 6%
- of the base1 · 6%
- they could not well1 · 6%
- and in his estate1 · 6%
- but in his estate1 · 6%
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.