Existence
יְקוּםStrong’s H3351yequm (ye-qum)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yequm is the Hebrew word usually translated “existence” and “substance”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.”
Meaning
- Living substance, that which stands or exists, existence, substance
How it's translated
- the existence 2
- the substance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
- Deuteronomy 11:6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Hebrew dictionary
יְקוּם yequm · existence
living substance, that which stands or exists, existence, substance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “existence” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXIST'ENCE, noun
The state of being or having essence; as the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence; temporal existence
- Life; animation.
- Continued being; duration; continuation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.