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כִּסֵּא

kise · throne

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3678 · appears 135 times in the Bible

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What it means

kise (כִּסֵּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “throne”.

The king's seat, sign of his authority.

How to say it

ki·se

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. Literally "the seat": the king's chair, or YHWH's, from which he rules.
  2. An ordinary seat where someone sits, not a king's.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Throne, the king's seat; also a seat of honor, or a simple chair.

How we translate it

“Throne” 124 times, “thrones” 4, “seat” 6, “chair” 1. “Seat” or “chair” when it is not a king who sits, as Eli by the doorpost of the temple or the piece of furniture in Elisha's room.

How it is translated

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

  • throne ×124
  • seat ×6
  • thrones ×4
  • chair ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 41:40

    You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your command; only in the throne will I be greater than you.”

  • Exodus 11:5

    and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who is behind the millstones, and every firstborn of the livestock.

  • Exodus 12:29

    At midnight YHWH struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.

  • Deuteronomy 17:18

    And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this instruction in a book, from the one that is before the priests, the Levites.

  • Judges 3:20

    Ehud came to him while he was sitting in the upper room of coolness that he had for himself alone. Ehud said, “I have a word of Elohim for you.” And he rose from the seat.

  • 1 Samuel 1:9

    And Hannah rose after eating in Shiloh and after drinking. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of YHWH.

  • 1 Samuel 2:8

    He raises the poor from the dust; from the ash heap he lifts the needy, to make them sit with nobles, and he makes them inherit a throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are YHWH’s, and on them he has set the world.

  • 1 Samuel 4:13

    He came, and there was Eli sitting on the seat beside the road, watching, for his heart was trembling for the ark of Elohim. And the man came to tell in the city, and all the city cried out.

  • 1 Samuel 4:18

    And it happened, when he mentioned the ark of Elohim, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

  • 2 Samuel 3:10

    to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

  • 2 Samuel 7:13

    He will build a house for my name, and I will make firm the throne of his kingdom forever.

  • 2 Samuel 7:16

    And your house and your kingdom will be firm forever before you; your throne will be established forever.’”

  • 2 Samuel 14:9

    The Tekoite woman said to the king, “On me, my lord the king, be the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne be innocent.”

  • 1 Kings 1:13

    Go and go in to King David, and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? So why does Adonijah reign?’

  • 1 Kings 1:17

    And she said to him, “My lord, you swore by YHWH your Elohim to your servant, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’

  • 1 Kings 1:20

    And you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, for you to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Kings 1:24

    And Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?

  • 1 Kings 1:27

    Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not made known to your servant who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

  • 1 Kings 1:30

    indeed, as I swore to you by YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ so I will do this very day.”

  • 1 Kings 1:35

    Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he shall reign in my place; and him I have commanded to be leader over Israel and over Judah.”

  • 1 Kings 1:37

    As YHWH has been with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make greater his throne than the throne of my lord King David!”

  • 1 Kings 1:46

    Moreover, Solomon has sat on the throne of the kingdom.

  • 1 Kings 1:47

    Moreover, the king’s servants have come to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May Elohim make the name of Solomon better than your name, and may he make greater his throne than your throne.’ And the king bowed down on the bed.

  • 1 Kings 1:48

    And the king also said this: ‘Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, who has given today one to sit on my throne, while my eyes see it.’”

  • 1 Kings 2:4

    so that YHWH may confirm his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons keep their way, walking before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,’ saying, ‘there shall not be cut off for you a man from the throne of Israel.’

  • 1 Kings 2:12

    And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was established firmly.

  • 1 Kings 2:19

    So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her, and sat on his throne and set a throne for the mother of the king, and she sat at his right.

  • 1 Kings 2:24

    And now, as YHWH lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made for me a house, as he spoke, surely today Adonijah shall be put to death.”

  • 1 Kings 2:33

    So their blood shall return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever; but for David and for his offspring and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace forever from YHWH.”

  • 1 Kings 2:45

    But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before YHWH forever.”

  • 1 Kings 3:6

    And Solomon said, “You have shown your servant David my father great loyal love, because he walked before you in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great loyal love and have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 1 Kings 5:5

    So look, I intend to build a house for the name of YHWH my Elohim, as YHWH spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set in your place on your throne, he shall build the house for my name.’

  • 1 Kings 7:7

    And the portico of the Throne, where he would judge, the portico of Judgment, he made; and it was roofed with cedar from the floor to the floor.

  • 1 Kings 8:20

    And YHWH has confirmed his word that he spoke; and I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as YHWH spoke, and I have built the house for the name of YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

  • 1 Kings 8:25

    And now, YHWH, Elohim of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you spoke to him, saying, ‘There shall not be cut off for you a man from before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their way, walking before me as you have walked before me.’

  • 1 Kings 9:5

    then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke concerning David your father, saying, ‘There shall not be cut off for you a man from the throne of Israel.’

  • 1 Kings 10:9

    May YHWH your Elohim be blessed, who took pleasure in you to set you on the throne of Israel; through the love of YHWH for Israel forever, he has set you as king, to do justice and righteousness.”

  • 1 Kings 10:18

    And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

  • 1 Kings 10:19

    There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round at its back; and there were arms on this side and on that of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.

  • 1 Kings 16:11

    And it happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck down all the house of Baasha; he did not leave him one who urinates against the wall, neither his kinsmen-redeemers nor his friend.

And 95 more times.