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H3559 — kuwn

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

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כּוּן

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.

221 occurrences in the KJV.

Job 8:8

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Job 11:13

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Job 12:5

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Job 15:23

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Job 18:12

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Job 21:8

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 27:16

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Job 27:17

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Job 28:27

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Job 31:15

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 38:41

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Job 42:7

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

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 pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

Psalms 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalms 7:9

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

Psalms 7:12

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Psalms 7:13

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Psalms 8:3

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalms 9:7

But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

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 11:2

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Psalms 21:12

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Psalms 24:2

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Psalms 37:23

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalms 38:17

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

Psalms 40:2

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalms 48:8

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalms 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Psalms 57:7

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

Psalms 57:7

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

Psalms 59:4

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Psalms 65:6

Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:

Psalms 65:9

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

Psalms 65:9

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

Psalms 68:9

Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

Psalms 68:10

Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

Psalms 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

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 God.

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 God.

Psalms 78:20

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

Psalms 78:37

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

Psalms 87:5

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

Psalms 89:2

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

Psalms 89:4

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

Psalms 89:21

With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

Psalms 89:37

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

Psalms 90:17

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalms 90:17

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

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 cannot be moved.

Psalms 93:2

Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

Psalms 96:10

Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

Psalms 99:4

The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Psalms 101:7

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Psalms 102:28

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Psalms 103:19

The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Psalms 107:36

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Psalms 108:1

O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Psalms 112:7

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

Psalms 119:5

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Psalms 119:73

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

Psalms 119:90

Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

Psalms 119:133

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalms 140:11

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Psalms 147:8

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Proverbs 3:19

The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 4:26

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Proverbs 6:8

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

Proverbs 12:3

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Proverbs 12:19

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 16:3

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Proverbs 16:12

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Proverbs 20:18

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Proverbs 21:29

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

Proverbs 21:31

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.

Proverbs 22:18

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Proverbs 24:3

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

Proverbs 25:5

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Proverbs 29:14

The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

Proverbs 30:25

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

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 the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

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 judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Isaiah 16:5

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 40:20

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

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 of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

Isaiah 62:7

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Jeremiah 10:12

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

Jeremiah 10:23

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

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