Biblica Analytica
H3556 Hebrew

כּוֹכָב

ko.khav

star

Lexicon Entry

Definition
star
Transliteration
ko.khav
Strong's Number
H3556
Occurrences
37
Semantic Domain
Light & Darkness

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The Hebrew word כּוֹכָב, ko.khav, carries the simple meaning of "star." It is a single, common noun used in various contexts throughout the Bible (37 occurrences). Its semantic domain is related to Light & Darkness, which means that stars, being celestial bodies that emit light, fall under this category. The frequency of the word's usage suggests its importance or prominence in the Hebrew thought and worldview. The fact that it appears 37 times indicates that stars played a significant role in ancient Hebrew culture, possibly due to their association with light, guidance, and even divinity in some contexts. The meaning of ko.khav remains constant throughout its occurrences, emphasizing its connection to the physical phenomenon of stars.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H3556
Lemma
כּוֹכָב
Transliteration
ko.khav
Definition
star
Occurrences
37
Model
groq
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

37 total occurrences across the text

Nehemiah 4:21

So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

Nehemiah 9:23

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Job 3:9

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Job 9:7

He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

Job 22:12

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalms 8:3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Psalms 136:9

the moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 147:4

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Psalms 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

Ecclesiastes 12:2

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Isaiah 14:13

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

Isaiah 47:13

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

Jeremiah 31:35

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

Ezekiel 32:7

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Daniel 8:10

It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.

Daniel 12:3

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Joel 3:15

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Amos 5:26

You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Nahum 3:16

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Genesis 1:16

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

Genesis 15:5

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

Genesis 22:17

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 37:9

He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

Numbers 24:17

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

Deuteronomy 1:10

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Judges 5:20

From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.