ken · stand; place, office

What it means

ken (כֵּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stand; place, office”.

Stand, base, pedestal. Also a place or position, an office someone holds.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What holds something up from below: foot, base or pedestal.
2. Someone's place or post, which another comes to occupy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stand ×8
• place ×4
• position ×2
• firm ×1
• likewise ×1
• pedestal ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Isaiah×1
• Daniel×4

• Genesis 40:13

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, after the former manner when you were his cupbearer.

• Genesis 41:13

  And just as he interpreted for us, so it happened: me he restored to my position, and him he hanged.”

• Exodus 30:18

  “You shall make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing, and put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

• Exodus 30:28

  the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand.

• Exodus 31:9

  and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 35:16

  the altar of burnt offering and its grating of bronze that belongs to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 38:8

  And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Exodus 39:39

  the bronze altar and the grating of bronze that belonged to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 40:11

  And you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.

• Leviticus 8:11

  He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.

• 1 Kings 7:29

  And on the panels that were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the crossbars likewise; above and below the lions and the oxen were wreaths, hanging work.

• 1 Kings 7:31

  And its mouth inside the capital and upward was a cubit; and its mouth was round, the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were carvings; and their panels were square, not round.

• Isaiah 33:23

  Your ropes hang loose; they cannot hold firm the base of their mast, they cannot spread out the sail. Then prey, abundant spoil, will be divided; the lame will plunder the plunder.

• Daniel 11:7

  But one from a shoot of her roots will stand up in his place, and he will come against the army and enter the stronghold of the king of the north, and act against them and prevail.

• Daniel 11:20

  And there will stand up in his place one who sends an exactor through the splendor of the kingdom; but in a few days he will be broken, and not in anger nor in battle.

• Daniel 11:21

  And there will stand up in his place a despised one, on whom they have not conferred the splendor of the kingdom; but he will come in a time of ease and seize the kingdom by intrigues.

• Daniel 11:38

  But the god of strongholds he will honor in his place; and a god that his fathers did not know he will honor with gold and with silver and with precious stones and with desirable things.