כּוֹכָבkôwkâb
star (Genesis 15:5; Numbers 24:17; Amos 5:26; Genesis 1:16; Genesis 22:17)
Pronunciation: ko-kawb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3556
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 37 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:16 God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 15:5 Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
- Genesis 22:17 I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.
- Genesis 26:4 I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
- Genesis 37:9 Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!”
- Exodus 32:13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You bound yourself with an oath to them, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. And I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.’”
See every passage
- Genesis 1:16, 15:5, 22:17, 26:4, 37:9
- Exodus 32:13
- Numbers 24:17
- Deuteronomy 1:10, 4:19, 10:22, 28:62
- Judges 5:20
- 1 Chronicles 27:23
- Nehemiah 4:21, 9:23
- Job 3:9, 9:7, 22:12, 25:5, 38:7
- Psalms 8:3, 136:9, 147:4, 148:3
- Ecclesiastes 12:2
- Isaiah 13:10, 14:13, 47:13
- Jeremiah 31:35
- Ezekiel 32:7
- Daniel 8:10, 12:3
- Joel 2:10, 3:15
- Amos 5:26
- Obadiah 1:4
- Nahum 3:16
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).