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title: כּוּן — Chun · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כּוּן (3560), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Chun. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כּוּן

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«כּוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chun** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3560 · **BDB:** כּוּן²

### Glosses

Kun (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chun [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3560/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3560/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city of Hadarezer (מִטִּבְחַת) וּמִכּוּן עָרֵי ה׳ 1 Ch 18:8, 𝔊 ἐκ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν πολέ(μ)ων (= בֵּרֹתַי 2 S 8:8); = mod. Kuna, near Bereitan (betw. Laodicea and Heliopolis), according to FurrerZPV viii, 34, v. בֵּרוֹתָה p. 92 supr., and Thes.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כּוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3560/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 18:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.8/)

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וּמִטִּבְחַ֤ת וּמִכּוּן֙ עָרֵ֣י הֲדַדְעֶ֔זֶר לָקַ֥ח דָּוִ֛יד נְחֹ֖שֶׁת רַבָּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד בָּ֣הּ ׀ עָשָׂ֣ה שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה אֶת־יָ֤ם הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ וְאֶת־הָֽעַמּוּדִ֔ים וְאֵ֖ת כְּלֵ֥י הַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת׃פ

*Word for word:* and from Tibhath and from Kun the.cities of.Hadadezer he.took David bronze much very with it he.made Solomon (et) the.sea of.(the) bronze and (et) the pillars and (et) the.articles of.(the) bronze

*JPS 1917:* And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

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