makhon

Makon names a place that has been firmly fixed in position, the settled spot where something is meant to stand or rest for good. It comes from the same root as the verb meaning "to establish," and that idea of firmness runs through every use: this is never a casual, passing location but a place set in place to stay.

The word reaches in three directions from that single core:

• Most often it is God's own fixed dwelling, whether the heavens he looks down from or the temple built as his settled home on earth.
• Sometimes it is a foundation, the firm base that holds something up, as when righteousness and justice are called the base that secures God's throne, or the earth is set on its footings.
• A few times it is simply the established site of a building or place, the spot where it belongs.

What ties these together is not the thing occupying the place but the fixedness of the place itself. Whether it is a throne, the earth, a sanctuary, or God's own dwelling, makon is where that thing is firmly and lastingly set.