כֵּן
ken
stand
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word כֵּן (ken) is defined as "stand." It is primarily classified under the semantic domain of Movement & Travel. This suggests that the primary action or state associated with this word is being in a stationary position or being firm. Throughout the Bible, the word כֵּן is used 17 times. Given its definition and semantic domain, it is likely used in contexts that involve physical or metaphorical standing. Its usage range may include descriptions of geographical locations, military or social statuses, or even spiritual conditions. The consistency in its definition and semantic classification provides some insight into the importance of the concept of standing in biblical thought, whether in action or state.
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Occurrences in Scripture
17 total occurrences across the text
He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Isaiah 33:23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
Daniel 11:7“But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.
Daniel 11:20“Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
Daniel 11:21“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Daniel 11:38But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.
Genesis 40:13Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
Genesis 41:13As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
Exodus 30:18“You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
Exodus 30:28the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
Exodus 31:9the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,
Exodus 35:16the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
Exodus 39:39the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
Exodus 40:11You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
Leviticus 8:11He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
1 Kings 7:29and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1 Kings 7:31Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.