Crown
כֶּ֫תֶרStrong’s H3804keter (ke-ter)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keter is the Hebrew word usually translated “crown of” and “head-dress of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.”
Meaning
- Crown
How it's translated
- with a crown of 1
- a crown of 1
- a head-dress of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 2:17And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
- Esther 6:8Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫תֶר keter · crown
crown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crown” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CROWN, noun
[G., Latin ]
- An ornament worn on the head by kings and sovereign princes, as a badge of imperial or regal power and dignity.
- A wreath or garland.
- Honorary distinction; reward.“They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; we, an incorruptible” 1 Corinthians 9:25
- Honor; splendor; dignity.“The crown has fallen from our heads” Lamentations 5:16“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband” Proverbs 12:4
All definitions and other forms of “crown”
- The top of the head; the top of a mountain or other elevated object.
- The part of a hat which covers the top of the head.
- A coin anciently stamped with the figure of a crown The English crown is five shillings sterling.
- Completion; accomplishment.
- Clerical tonsure in a circular form; a little circle shaved on the top of the head, as a mark of ecclesiastical office or distinction.
- Among jewelers, the upper work of a rose diamond.
- In botany, an appendage to the top of a seed, which serves to bear it in the wind.
CROWN, verb transitive
- To invest with a crown or regal ornament.
- To cover, as with a crown; to cover the top.
- To honor; to dignify; to adorn.“Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor” Psalms 8:5
- To reward; to bestow an honorary reward or distinction on; as the victor crowned with laurel.
- To reward; to recompense.
- To terminate or finish; to complete; to perfect.
- To terminate and reward; as, our efforts were crowned with success.
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.