Strong's Hebrew · H6965

קוּם

qûwm · koom

abide, accomplish, [idiom] be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, [idiom] be dim, endure, [idiom] enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, [idiom] but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-) rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-) stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, -rising).

Definition

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 627 times in Scripture

Genesis 9:9

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Genesis 17:19

But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 13:17

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 9:11

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:17

So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

Genesis 4:8

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 17:21

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 18:16

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.

Genesis 6:18

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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