Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
foundation
Usage: 1) fixed or established place, foundation 1a) fixed place 1b) foundation
Makon means “foundation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4349 — proskope (“offence”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4349 מָכוֹן (makown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. makown (maw-kone') n-m. 1. (properly) a fixture, i.e. a basis 2. (generally) a place It has 17 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include place, habitation, and foundations. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
makown (maw-kone') n-m. 1. (properly) a fixture, i.e. a basis 2. (generally) a place 3. (especially) an abode [from H3559] KJV: foundation, habitation, (dwelling-, settled) place. Root(s): H3559
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foundation
Usage: 1) fixed or established place, foundation 1a) fixed place 1b) foundation
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render makown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4349.
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4349, grouped by book.
Makon (Strong's H4349) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "foundation". makown (maw-kone') n-m. 1. (properly) a fixture, i.e. a basis 2. (generally) a place
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H4349 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4349 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as place, habitation, and foundations. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.