Throne
כֵּסStrong’s H3678kes
Appears in 124 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kes is the Hebrew word usually translated “throne of”, “throne his” and “throne my”. It appears in 124 verses of the Old Testament.
“Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”
Meaning
- Seat (of honour), throne, seat, stool
- Seat (of honour), throne, seat, stoolseat (of honour), throne · royal dignity, authority, power (fig.)
How it's translated
- throne of 39
- throne his 29
- throne my 10
- throne your 7
- a throne 7
- and throne his 5
- a throne of 5
- to the throne 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 29
- Psalms 17
- Jeremiah 16
- 2 Chronicles 9
- Isaiah 8
- 2 Kings 7
22 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:40Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
- Exodus 11:5And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
- Exodus 12:29And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- Deuteronomy 17:18And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
- Judges 3:20And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
- 1 Samuel 1:9So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
All 124 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כֵּס kes · throne
seat (of honour), throne, seat, stool Another spelling of kis.se (כִּסֵּא ": throne" H3678)
כִּסֵּא kisse · throne
1) seat (of honour), throne, seat, stool 1a) seat (of honour), throne 1b) royal dignity, authority, power (fig.)
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.