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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 - God made two great lights - the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - The LORD took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars - if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said. "I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, 'I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - 'I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not close at hand. A star will march forth out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab, and the heads of all the sons of Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars - the whole heavenly creation - you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - From the sky the stars fought, from their paths in the heavens they fought against Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - "Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - when the morning stars sang in chorus, 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 look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9 - the moon and stars to rule by night, for his loyal love endures,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - You said to yourself, "I will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of Zaphon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand - the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions - let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the LORD who rules over all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky; I will darken its stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - It grew so big it reached the army of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars to the ground, where it trampled them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!" says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
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