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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 BoxGen 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:3 - When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9 - The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
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