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Lexicon :: Strong's H3556 - kôḵāḇ

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כּוֹכָב
Transliteration
kôḵāḇ
Pronunciation
ko-kawb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from the same as כַּבּוֹן (H3522) (in the sense of rolling) or כָּוָה (H3554) (in the sense of blazing)
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TWOT Reference: 942a

Strong’s Definitions

כּוֹכָב kôwkâb, ko-kawb'; probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince:—star(-gazer).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H3556 in the following manner: star (36x), stargazers (with H2374) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H3556 in the following manner: star (36x), stargazers (with H2374) (1x).

  1. star

    1. of Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification, God's omniscience (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כּוֹכָב kôwkâb, ko-kawb'; probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince:—star(-gazer).
STRONGS H3556: Abbreviations
כּוֺכָב noun masculineGenesis 15:5 star (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כּוֺכְבָא, כּוֺכַבְתָּא bdb045609, bdb045610, feminine form specifically of planet Venus, see also WeSkizzen iii. 36, 38; Arabic bdb045611 generally of single stars and probably Aramaic loan-word, WeSkizzen iii. 173; Ethiopic bdb045612; probably for *כבכב see Mahri kubkob, kobkib, etc., MaltzanZMG 1873, 227 and Assyrian kakkabu DlHWB 336; Punic κακαβουμ (Dioscorides), name of a plant, probably from shape of seed-cup, BlauZMG xxvii, 1873, 529; on formation compare NöM § 109 BaNB § 138. 1) — כ׳ absolute Numbers 24:17; construct כּוֺכַב Amos 5:26; plural כּוֺכָבִים Genesis 1:16 19 times; construct כּוֺכְבֵי (כֹּכְבֵי) Genesis 22:17 13 times; כֹּכְבֵיהֶם Ezekiel 32:7; — singular only אֱלֹהֵיכֶם כ׳ Amos 5:26 (where, however, כ׳ is probably a gloss, so GFM Dec. 19, 1890, and now We; see further כִּיּוּן); and מִיַּעֲקֹב כ׳ Numbers 24:12 (J E; || שֵׁבֶט בישׂראל, metaphor of future ruler); elsewhere plural stars, || sun and moon (compare also below) Genesis 1:16 (P) Psalm 136:9 (to rule the night, compare Genesis 1:16), Jeremiah 31:35; Genesis 37:9 (E), Joseph's dream (אַחַד עָשָׂר כ׳ = 11 brethren); Deuteronomy 4:19 object of idolatrous worship (compare below); observed in augury הַחֹזִים בַּכּ׳ Isaiah 47:13 (of Babylon); Ecclesiastes 12:2 (|| (also) light; figurative of brightness of youth); || sun Job 9:7; || moon Psalm 8:4; sign of evening Nehemiah 4:15 (מֵעֲלוֺת הַשַּׁחַר עַד צֵאת הַכּ׳) compare כּוֺכְבֵי נִשְׁכּוֺ Job 3:9 (apparently sign of dawn); numbered by God Psalm 147:4; simile of abundant posterity, Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 26:4; Exodus 32:13 (all J E); of Israel Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22; Deuteronomy 28:62; 1 Chronicles 27:32; Nehemiah 9:23; of number of merchants of Nineveh Nahum 3:16; as lofty, Job 22:12; so in figure of haughty nations Obadiah 4; Isaiah 14:13; compare symbolic vision of Daniel (|| צָבָא, צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם) Daniel 8:10; simile of brightness of righteous Daniel 12:3; not pure (זַכּוּ) before God Job 25:5 (|| moon); darkened in Yahweh's judgment Joel 2:10; Joel 4:15; Ezekiel 32:7 (|| sun and moon; so) Isaiah 13:10 (|| also כְּסִילֵיהֶם); personified: as fighting Judges 5:20; shouting Job 38:7 (בְּרָןיַֿחַד כּוֺכְבֵי בֹקֶר, || בְּנֵי אֱלֹחִים); praising Psalm 148:3 (כּוֺכְבֵי אוֺר, || sun and moon). — On stars in Arabic mythology see WeSkizzen iii. 173 f.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:16; 1:16; 1:16; 15:5; 15:5; 22:17; 22:17; 26:4; 37:9

Exodus

32:13

Numbers

24:12; 24:17

Deuteronomy

1:10; 4:19; 10:22; 28:62

Judges

5:20

1 Chronicles

27:32

Nehemiah

4:15; 9:23

Job

3:9; 9:7; 22:12; 25:5; 38:7

Psalms

8:4; 136:9; 147:4; 148:3

Ecclesiastes

12:2

Isaiah

13:10; 14:13; 47:13

Jeremiah

31:35

Ezekiel

32:7; 32:7

Daniel

8:10; 12:3

Joel

2:10

Amos

5:26; 5:26

Obadiah

1:4

Nahum

3:16

H3556

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3556 matches the Hebrew כּוֹכָב (kôḵāḇ),
which occurs 37 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the stars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and unto thy seed will I give all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves --

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall possess it for ever!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh: There cometh a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and he shall cut in pieces the corners of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - With seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - And ye shall be left a small company, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - From heaven was the fight; The stars from their courses fought with Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - And David took not their number from twenty years old and under; for Jehovah had said he would increase Israel as the stars of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:3 - When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9 - The moon and stars for rule over the night, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4 - He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth names to them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars of light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the interpreters of the heavens, the observers of the stars, who predict according to the new moons what shall come upon thee, stand up, and save thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, -- Jehovah of hosts is his name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - And it became great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and trampled upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and they that turn the many to righteousness as the stars, for ever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
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