Words

כּוּן H3559

Home gloss

be fixed (niphal)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

be established / be fixed

Note

"The word is fixed from the Elohim" (41:32); "the mountain of the house of Adonai shall be fixed" (Isa 2:2); full noon, "until the day is fixed" (Prov 4:18). The hiphil and polel are fixed when reached. "Firm" is אָמַן's

Rulings

20

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 41

• 41:32 And as for the dream being repeated to Pharaoh two turns: it is because the word is fixed from the Elohim, and the Elohim is hurrying to do it.

Genesis 43

• 43:16 And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and he said to the one who was over his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher a butchering, and fix it, for with me the men shall eat at noon."
• 43:25 And they fixed the gift until the coming of Joseph at noon, for they had heard that there they would eat bread.