Throne
כֵּסStrong’s H3676kes
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kes is the Hebrew word usually translated “throne of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Meaning
- Seat (of honour), throne, seat, stool
How it's translated
- throne of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כֵּס kes · throne
seat (of honour), throne, seat, stool Another spelling of kis.se (כִּסֵּא ": throne" H3678)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “throne” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THRONE, noun
[Latin thronus.]
- A royal seat; a chair of state.
- The seat of a bishop.
- In Scripture, sovereign power and dignity.“Only in the throne will I be greater than thou” Genesis 41:40
- Angels. Colossians 1:16
All definitions and other forms of “throne”
- The place where God peculiarly manifests his power and glory.“The heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool” Isaiah 66:1
THRONE, verb transitive
To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
- To place in an elevated position; to give an elevated place to; to exalt.
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.