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A Space frame pillar Jachin ACHB [(Young’s) Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible] : JÁ-CHIN, בִ י ן י founding 1. A son of Simeon. B.C. 1700 2. The name of a pillar in Solomon’s temple: 1 Ki 7:21; 2 Ch 3:17 3. A priest in Jerusalem after the captivity. B.C. 445. 4. A head of one of the families of the sons of Aaron. B.C. 1015.
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ECB [(Strong’s) Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible] :
Strong’s: 3199 3199. ן י בִ יִ Yâĸȋyn, yaw- keen, from 3559 he (or it) will establish; Jakin, the name of three Israelites, and of a temple pillar : – Jachin. 3559. בּ וּ ן kûwn, koon; a primitive root; to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literally (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or † figuratively (appoint, render, sure, proper or prosperous) : – certain, certainty, confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, preparation, make preparation, prepare, prepare self, provide, make provision, be ready, make ready, ready, right, set aright, set fast, set forth, be stable, establish, stablish, stand, tarry, very deed (a rendering that results from an idiom peculiar to the Hebrew) 3560. בּ וּ ן Kûwn, koon; probably from 3559 established; Kun , a place in Syria : – Chun. † : – stands for 'rendered as (in the KJV)' |
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TWOT [Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament] TWOT: 964 964 בּ וּ ן (kûn) established, prepared, made ready, fixed, certain, right. The root appears with its derivatives more than 288 times. The root meaning is to bring something into being with the consequence that its existence is a certainty. Five somewhat different connotations can be discovered in the usages of this root. These connotations move from provision through preparation and establishment to fixity and rightness. The word as used in Hebrew rarely means simply to bring into being. BDB (the standard Hebrew lexicon, Brown, Driver, and Briggs, printed in 1905) and KB (a more recent lexicon, Koehler and Baumgartner) suggest that the root meaning is “to be firm” (KB also adding “straight”). However, evidence of the original etymology may be found in those occurrences where something is said simply to have been formed or fashioned (brought into existence): |
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Jud 12:6 Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it
right KJV.[and is not prepared to speak right (YLT Young’s Literal Translation)] Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? KJV Ps 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. KJV Ezk 16:7 thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown. KJV In none of these is the idea of fixity or firmness in view, but rather of basic formation. Where the word is translated “to provide for”: II Ch 1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. Job 38:41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. Ps 65:9 [H 10] thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. KJV thou providest their grain, for so thou hast prepared it. RSV Ps 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Prov 6:8 provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. KJV [Prepares her food in the summer, and gathers her provision in the harvest. NAS] At numerous points it is difficult to know whether certain usages should be translated “provide” or “prepare”. It seems likely that the several references in Chronicles to David’s “preparing” materials for the temple could just as appropriately be understood as referring to his “providing” such materials. At any rate, however, it is clear that a very significant group of occurrences must be translated with “prepare”. |
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In view of something in the future, certain things are set in order. Meal preparation: Gen 43:16 he said to his house steward, “Bring the men into the house, and slay an animal and make ready; for the men are to dine with me at noon. NAS Josh 1:11 Prepare your victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan Neh 8:10 Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared and military preparation: Josh 8:4 Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready Ezk 7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready Ezk 38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee Amos 4:12 Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. It is God who will war on the ungodly and they should prepare themselves: Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. KJV He wanders about ‒ food for vultures (or : looking for food); he knows the day of darkness is at hand. NIV Jer 46:14 ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready, For the sword has devoured those around you.’ NAS Jer 51:12 set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. |
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On the other hand, God has made preparations as well. These would include his creative functions: Ps 147:8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. KJV Who provides rain for the earth NAS Job 28:27 Then he saw it and declared it; He established it and also searched it out. NAS Prov 8:27 When he prepared the heavens I was there KJV “When he established the heavens, I was there NAS as well as his judicial ones: Ps 7:11 Ps 7:13 [H 12,14] Ps 9:7 [H 8] Prov 19:29 Zeph 1:7 |