kochav · star

What it means

kochav (כּוֹכָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “star”.

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. A small light that shines at night in the sky.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stars ×35
• star ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×4
• Judges×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×5
• Psalms×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×2
• Joel×2
• Amos×1
• Obadiah×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 1:16

  And Elohim made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.

• Genesis 15:5

  He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And he said to him, “So will your offspring be.”

• Genesis 22:17

  that I will surely bless you and will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the shore of the sea; and your offspring will possess the gate of its enemies.

• Genesis 26:4

  I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the heavens and will give to your offspring all these lands; and through your offspring all the nations of the earth will bless themselves,

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: look, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”

• Exodus 32:13

  Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

• Numbers 24:17

  I see him, but not now; I gaze on him, but not near. A star shall march forth from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall shatter the temples of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth.

• Deuteronomy 1:10

  YHWH your Elohim has multiplied you, and look, you are today like the stars of the heavens in multitude.

• Deuteronomy 4:19

  And so that you do not lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them; YHWH your Elohim has allotted them to all the peoples under all the heavens.

• Deuteronomy 10:22

  With seventy persons your fathers went down to Egypt, and now YHWH your Elohim has made you like the stars of the heavens in multitude.

• Deuteronomy 28:62

  And you will be left few in number, whereas you were like the stars of the heavens in multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your Elohim.

• Judges 5:20

  From the heavens they fought; the stars from their courses fought against Sisera.

• 1 Chronicles 27:23

  But David did not take the number of those from twenty years old and under, for YHWH had said he would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

• Nehemiah 4:21

  So we were doing the work, and half of them were holding the spears, from the rising of the dawn until the coming out of the stars.

• Nehemiah 9:23

  And their sons you multiplied like the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land of which you had told their fathers that they would go in to possess it.

• Job 3:9

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it hope for light and there be none, and may it not see the eyelids of the dawn,

• Job 9:7

  who speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars;

• Job 22:12

  Is not Eloah in the height of the heavens? And see the top of the stars, how high they are.

• Job 25:5

  Look, even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

• Job 38:7

  when the stars of the morning shouted for joy together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted in acclamation?

• Psalms 8:3

  When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established,

• Psalms 136:9

  the moon and stars for dominion over the night, for his loyal love is forever.

• Psalms 147:4

  He counts the number of the stars; to all of them he calls by names.

• Psalms 148:3

  Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light.

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

• Isaiah 14:13

  And you said in your heart, ‘To the heavens I will ascend; above the stars of El I will raise my throne, and I will sit on the mount of meeting, in the far reaches of the north;

• Isaiah 47:13

  You are weary with the great number of your counsels; let them stand up now and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who make known at the new moons what will come upon you.

• Jeremiah 31:35

  Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for light by day, the statutes of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name:

• Ezekiel 32:7

  And when I extinguish you I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; the sun with a cloud I will cover, and the moon will not make its light shine.

• Daniel 8:10

  And it grew up to the army of the heavens, and made fall to the ground some of the army and of the stars, and trampled them.

• Daniel 12:3

  And the insightful will shine like the brightness of the vault, and those who make the many righteous, like the stars forever and ever.

• Joel 2:10

  Before it the earth quakes, the heavens shake; sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Joel 3:15

  Sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Amos 5:26

  And you carried Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods, which you made for yourselves.

• Obadiah 1:4

  Though you soar high like the eagle, and though among the stars your nest is set, from there I will bring you down, declares YHWH.

• Nahum 3:16

  You have multiplied your traders more than the stars of the heavens; the young locust strips off and flies away.