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כּוּן kun

Hebrew word for “to establish” · Strong’s H3559 · used 217 times in 209 verses

Old Testament27 booksMost often in Psalms (52)

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Meaning

: establish/fix; 1) to be firm, be stable, be established;

Senses in the lexicon

to establish: establish (99)
to establish: prepare (88)
to establish: make (14)
to establish: right (12)
to establish: commit (3)
blow (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for kun in context, with how often each is used:

established 36
prepared 31
prepare 18
will establish 11
will be established 9
have prepared 9
steadfast 7
had prepared 6
establish 6
will prepare 5
have established 4
direct 4

Where it is used

Book	Uses	Per 1,000 words
Psalms	52	2.7
2 Chronicles	26	2.0
1 Chronicles	24	2.2
Proverbs	19	2.7
Job	15	1.8
Isaiah	10	0.6
Ezekiel	8	0.4
Exodus	7	0.4
Jeremiah	7	0.3
1 Samuel	6	0.5
2 Samuel	6	0.5
1 Kings	6	0.5

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 35 (7), 2 Samuel 7 (5), 1 Chronicles 29 (5), 1 Kings 2 (4), 1 Chronicles 17 (4), 1 Chronicles 22 (4), Psalms 89 (4), Psalms 119 (4), 1 Chronicles 15 (3), 2 Chronicles 29 (3)

Forms

נכון 31
הכין 19
הכינו 13
תכון 9
תכין 7
יכון 7
והכן 7
יכין 6
הכינותי 6
ויכינו 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kun more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

Key verses

The verses using kun that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

1 Samuel 7:3 — And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from…
2 Samuel 7:12 — And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will…
Job 42:8 — Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall…
Psalms 10:17 — LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalms 78:8 — And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with…
Psalms 93:1 — The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it…
Proverbs 4:18 — But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Isaiah 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above…
Isaiah 9:7 — Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with…
Isaiah 51:13 — And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because…
Hosea 6:3 — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and…
Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.