STRONGS NUMBER H3653


Word Summary
ken: right, veritable, honest
Original Word: כֵּן
Transliteration: ken
Phonetic Spelling: (kane)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: right, veritable, honest
Meaning: a stand, pedestal, station
Strong's Concordance
base, estate, foot, office, place, well

The same as ken, used as a noun; a stand, i.e. Pedestal or station -- base, estate, foot, office, place, well.

see HEBREW ken

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3653. ken

III. כֵּןnoun masculine base, pedestal, office (Late Hebrew כַּנָּה‎; Aramaic כַּנְתָּא‎, ) — absolute ׳כIsaiah 33:23; 1 Kings 7:31 (but see below); suffix כַּנּוֺExodus 30:18 11t.; כַּנֶּ֑ךָGenesis 40:13; כַּנִּי41:13; —

1 literally base, pedestal, 1 Kings 7:31 (like) the work of a pedestal (Th VB), according to StaZAW iii, 1883, 161, 162 מַעֲשֵׂהכֵֿן‎ is in wrong place, being originally part of a gloss to 7:35; — ׳כ‎ in 7:29 = thus, or is text error; — כֵּןתָּֿרְנָםIsaiah 33:23 the base (supportor socket) of their mast (so Thes and most); especially of base of laver of tabernacle Exodus 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:11; Leviticus 8:11 (all P).

2 office, place Genesis 40:13; 41:13 (both E); hence (late) עַלכַּֿנּוֺin his place Daniel 11:20-21, 38 (i.e. in his stead, as his successor, compare German an seiner Stelle); עַל‎ omitted 11:7.