כֵּן
thus
also: so, therefore fuller range ↓
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Demonstrative 432 times (56%)
- Adverb 326 times (42%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 8 times (1%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 5 times (1%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 771 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Jeremiah 98 verses
- Jeremiah 51:7 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
- Jeremiah 51:36 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
- Jeremiah 51:47 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
- Jeremiah 51:52 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Lamentations 3 verses
- Lamentations 1:8 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
- Lamentations 3:21 כֵּ֥ן ptcl dem This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
- Lamentations 3:24 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Ezekiel 82 verses
- Ezekiel 1:28 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
- Ezekiel 5:7 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
- Ezekiel 5:8 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
- Ezekiel 5:10 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
- Ezekiel 5:11 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you]; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
- Ezekiel 7:20 כֵּ֛ן ptcl dem As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.
- Ezekiel 11:4 לָ/כֵ֖ן prep + adv Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
- Ezekiel 11:5 כֵּ֥ן ptcl dem The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
- Ezekiel 11:7 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 11:16 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.
- Ezekiel 11:17 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 12:7 כֵּן֮ ptcl dem I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
- Ezekiel 12:11 כֵּ֚ן ptcl dem Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
- Ezekiel 12:23 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
- Ezekiel 12:28 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 13:8 לָ/כֵ֗ן לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 13:13 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
- Ezekiel 13:20 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt to make [them] fly.
- Ezekiel 13:23 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:4 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
- Ezekiel 14:6 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 15:6 לָ/כֵ֗ן כֵּ֣ן prep + adv ptcl dem Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 16:35 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
- Ezekiel 16:37 לָ֠/כֵן prep + adv therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
- Ezekiel 17:19 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.
- Ezekiel 18:30 לָ/כֵן֩ prep + adv Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
- Ezekiel 20:27 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
- Ezekiel 20:30 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?
- Ezekiel 20:36 כֵּ֚ן ptcl dem Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 21:4 לָ֠/כֵן prep + adv Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
- Ezekiel 21:12 לָ/כֵ֖ן prep + adv Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
- Ezekiel 21:24 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
- Ezekiel 22:4 כֵּ֗ן ptcl dem You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
- Ezekiel 22:19 לָ/כֵ֗ן לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:20 כֵּ֤ן ptcl dem As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:22 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
- Ezekiel 23:9 לָ/כֵ֥ן prep + adv Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
- Ezekiel 23:22 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
- Ezekiel 23:35 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 23:44 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
- Ezekiel 24:6 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
- Ezekiel 24:9 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
- Ezekiel 25:4 לָ/כֵ֡ן prep + adv therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
- Ezekiel 25:7 לָ/כֵ֡ן prep + adv therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 25:9 לָ/כֵן֩ prep + adv therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
- Ezekiel 25:13 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 25:16 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
- Ezekiel 26:3 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
- Ezekiel 28:6 לָ/כֵ֕ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
- Ezekiel 28:7 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
- Ezekiel 29:8 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.
- Ezekiel 29:10 לָ/כֵ֛ן prep + adv therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
- Ezekiel 29:19 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
- Ezekiel 30:22 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
- Ezekiel 31:5 כֵּן֙ ptcl dem Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
- Ezekiel 31:10 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
- Ezekiel 33:10 כֵּ֤ן ptcl dem You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?
- Ezekiel 33:25 לָ/כֵן֩ prep + adv Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
- Ezekiel 34:7 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
- Ezekiel 34:9 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
- Ezekiel 34:12 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Ezekiel 34:20 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
- Ezekiel 35:6 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
- Ezekiel 35:11 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
- Ezekiel 35:15 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 36:3 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
- Ezekiel 36:4 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;
- Ezekiel 36:5 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
- Ezekiel 36:6 לָ/כֵ֕ן prep + adv Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:
- Ezekiel 36:7 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
- Ezekiel 36:14 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
- Ezekiel 36:22 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
- Ezekiel 36:38 כֵּ֤ן ptcl dem As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 37:12 לָ/כֵן֩ prep + adv Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 38:14 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?
- Ezekiel 39:25 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
- Ezekiel 40:16 וְ/כֵ֖ן conj + ptcl dem There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 41:7 כֵּ֥ן וְ/כֵ֧ן ptcl dem conj + ptcl dem The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].
- Ezekiel 42:6 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
- Ezekiel 42:11 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
- Ezekiel 44:12 כֵּן֩ ptcl dem Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 45:20 וְ/כֵ֤ן conj + ptcl dem So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so shall you make atonement for the house.
Hosea 10 verses
- Hosea 2:6 לָ/כֵ֛ן prep + adv Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.
- Hosea 2:9 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, And my new wine in its season, And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
- Hosea 2:14 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And bring her into the wilderness, And speak tenderly to her.
- Hosea 4:3 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.
- Hosea 4:7 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
- Hosea 4:13 כֵּ֗ן ptcl dem They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.
- Hosea 6:5 כֵּ֗ן ptcl dem Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
- Hosea 11:2 כֵּ֚ן ptcl dem They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to engraved images.
- Hosea 13:3 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.
- Hosea 13:6 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
Joel 2 verses
- Joel 2:4 כֵּ֥ן ptcl dem The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, And as horsemen, so do they run.
- Joel 2:28 כֵ֗ן adv "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
Amos 11 verses
- Amos 3:2 כֵּן֙ ptcl dem "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
- Amos 3:11 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered."
- Amos 3:12 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, Or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, And on the silken cushions of a bed."
- Amos 4:5 כֵ֤ן adv Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: For this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.
- Amos 4:12 לָ/כֵ֕ן prep + adv "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, Israel.
- Amos 5:11 לָ֠/כֵן prep + adv Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.
- Amos 5:13 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.
- Amos 5:14 כֵ֞ן adv Seek good, and not evil, That you may live; And so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, As you say.
- Amos 5:16 לָ֠/כֵן prep + adv Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
- Amos 6:7 לָ/כֵ֛ן prep + adv Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; And the feasting and lounging will end.
- Amos 7:17 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
Jonah 1 verse
Micah 6 verses
- Micah 1:14 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
- Micah 2:3 לָ/כֵ֗ן prep + adv Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, From which you will not remove your necks, Neither will you walk haughtily; For it is an evil time.
- Micah 2:5 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
- Micah 3:6 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, And it is dark to you, that you may not divine; And the sun will go down on the prophets, And the day will be black over them.
- Micah 3:12 לָ/כֵן֙ prep + adv Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Micah 5:3 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
Nahum 1 verse
Habakkuk 4 verses
- Habakkuk 1:4 כֵּן֙ כֵּ֛ן ptcl dem ptcl dem Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
- Habakkuk 1:15 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
- Habakkuk 1:16 כֵּן֙ ptcl dem Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
- Habakkuk 1:17 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
Zephaniah 2 verses
- Zephaniah 2:9 לָ/כֵ֣ן prep + adv Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Zephaniah 3:8 לָ/כֵ֤ן prep + adv "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Haggai 2 verses
- Haggai 1:10 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
- Haggai 2:14 כֵּ֣ן וְ/כֵן וְ/כֵ֖ן ptcl dem conj + ptcl dem conj + ptcl dem Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
Zechariah 9 verses
- Zechariah 1:6 כֵּ֖ן ptcl dem But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
- Zechariah 1:16 לָ/כֵ֞ן prep + adv Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'
- Zechariah 7:13 כֵּ֤ן ptcl dem It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Hosts;
- Zechariah 8:13 כֵּ֚ן ptcl dem It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
- Zechariah 8:15 כֵּ֣ן ptcl dem so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.
- Zechariah 10:2 כֵּן֙ ptcl dem For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
- Zechariah 11:7 לָ/כֵ֖ן prep + adv So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.
- Zechariah 11:11 כֵ֜ן adv It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
- Zechariah 14:15 וְ/כֵ֨ן conj + ptcl dem So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.
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At its core, כן (kên) means “thus.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 1:7. It appears 737 verses across 35 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “so” and “therefore”. It clusters with כון, אכן and כון under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H3651 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 737
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 737 distinct verses.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #61
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 61 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 737 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 737 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 427 verses · 58%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 174 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 136 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 5 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Cause 2×, Like manner 2×, Therefore 2×
- American Standard Version†: Therefore 3×, Him 2×, Like manner 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Therefore 159×, So 117×, This 27×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Therefore 274×, Thus 181×, So 117×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3651 across 38† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3651 across 39† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3651 across 461† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 38 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 298 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3651 across 753† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 33 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
20 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 20 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
כן I right, veritable, honest (proposes firm, upright
- 1. right, usually indecl., often as subst. a right thing, especially c. vbb. dicendi Ex 10:29 (J) כֵּן דִּבַּרְתָּ, Nu 27:7 כֵּן דֹּבְרֹת, 36:5 (both P); כֵּן יַאֲרִיךְ Pr 28:2 (the) right (i.e. order and justice) shall last long (v. De Now VB); = adv. aright, of pronunciation Ju 12:6; also c. vb. agendi Ec 8:10 (on Is 33:23 v. iii. כֵּן sub כנן); right well ψ 65:10; (Che; al. = so); c. לֹא, as adj., not right דְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר לֹא־כֵן 2 K 17:9 things which were not right (vb. agendi); of heart of a fool Pr 15:7; Je 23:10; as subst. = what is not right, upright Je 8:6; c. vb. agendi לֹא־כֵן 2 K 7:9 that which is not right we are doing, Je 48:30b. e.g. Exodus 10:29
- 2. veritable, true, כֵּן־צְדָקָה Pr 11:19 the veritable of righteousness = true righteousness; Is 16:6 = Je 48:30a may be either their boastings are not true or (Thes Che Di Du Gr Gie al.) the untruth of their boastings (לֹא־כֵן as cpd. cstr.); abs., in assent to something already said, Right! Correct! True! Jos 2:4. e.g. Proverbs 11:19
- 3. pl. concr. honest (men) Gn 42:11, 19, 31, 33, 34 (all E).—i. כֵּן thus, so, v. p. 485 infr.; iii. כֵּן place, base, v. sub i. כנן; iv. כֵּן, כִּנִּם, כִּנָּם, v. sub כנן. e.g. Genesis 42:11
כן II so, thus (Ph. NH 𝔗 id.
- 1.
- a. Ju 5:31 כן יאבדו so perish thy enemies, Jb 5:27 כֶּן־הִיא, 8:13 כן ארחות כל שׁכחי אל, Pr 6:29; 8:13; 2 S 16:23 Is 36:6; 47:15 כן היו לך, Nu 13:33 וכן היינו בעיניהם; Nu 9:16 כן יהיה תמיד; Ex 10:14, 14 לא היה כן ארבה כמהו וג׳ (i.e. in such numbers), 1 K 10:12 לא בא כן עצי אלמגים, v 20 2 Ch 1:12, 12, Ju 21:14 ולא מצאו להם כן and they did not suffice for them so (viz. in such numbers of them as there were); 1 K 6:26 וכן הכרוב השׁני, Ez 41:7 (?); וכן ל׳ Ex 27:11 1 K 10:29 Ez 40:16 2 Ch 35:12, cf. 1 Ch 23:30; כן ל׳ Ex 25:33 (cf. 26:24), Jos 21:40. e.g. Judges 5:31
- b. the force of כֵּן has sometimes to be elicited from the context: 1 K 2:7 כי כן קרבו אלי (sc. with kindness such as that enjoined in v a), 20:40 כן משׁפטך, Je 14:10 כן אהבו לנוע (i.e. not less than י׳ has withdrawn from them v 9, Gf Ke; Gie proposes אָכֵן), ψ 61:9 כֵּן אֲוַמְּרָה שִׁמְךָ (Hi כְּצִדְקְךָ, implied in v 6–8), 63:3 כֵּן בַּקֹּדֶשׁ חֲזִיתִךָ (sc. with the longings of v 2), v 5 כֵּן אֲבָרֶכְךָ בְחַיָּי (sc. כִּי־טוֹב חַסְדְּךָ v 4), 65:10 כִּי כֵן תְּכִינֶהָ (i.e. so generously, v 10), 90:12 לִמְנוֹת יָמֵינוּ כֵּן הוֹדַע (Hi כְּיִרְאַת י׳ v 11), 127:2 כֵּן יִּתֵּן לִידִידוֹ שֵׁנָא (sc. as abundantly; but Che אָכֵן), Pr 24:14 (see v 13), Is 52:14 כֵּן מִשְׁחַת מֵאִישׁ מַרְאֵהוּ (sufficiently to justify שׁממו עליך רבים). e.g. 1 Kings 2:7
- c. כן occurs freq. in partic. phrases, as (a) with הָיָה, especially ויהי כן and it was so Gn 1:7, 9, 11 +, 2 K 2:10 if thou seest me taken from thee יהי־לך כן let it be to thee so (sc. as thou desirest), 7:20, with עשׂה (especially וַיַּעַשׂ, וַיַּעֲשׂוּ) Gn 29:28; 42:20; 45:21 + often, Ju 7:16 מִמֶּנִּי תִרְאוּ וְכֵן תַּעֲשׂוּ, + ל׳ Gn 42:25 ויעשׂ להם כן, Ex 22:29; 23:11 כן תעשׂה ל׳, Dt 22:3 2 S 12:31 1 K 11:8 (cf. 6:33; 7:18); Gn 29:26 לא יֵעָשֶׂה כן במקומנו, 34:7 2 S 13:12; rarer usages, דִּבֶּר כֵּן Ex 6:9, אמר כן 1 K 22:8 כֵּן אמרתם Ez 11:5; 33:10, אָמֵן כֵּן יֹאמַר י׳ 1 K 1:36 (cf. Je 28:6), וגם שׁאול אבי יֹדֵעַ כֵּן 1 S 23:17; אָהֵב כֵּן (idiom.) to love (it) so, †Je 5:31 Am 4:5; (b) Gn 50:3 כי כן ימלאו ימי החנֻטים (cf. Ju 14:10 2 S 13:18 Est 2:12); (c) alone, אִם כֵּן if it be so †Gn 25:22; 43:11; †וַיִּרְאוּ כִּי־כֵן 1 S 5:7, יָדַעְתִּי כִּי־כֵן Jb 9:2; (d) לא כן not so (viz. as has been described or implied), with a subst. Nu 12:7 לא כן עבדי משׁה, 2 S 20:21; 23:5 ψ 1:4 Jb 9:35 b כי־לא־כן אנכי עמדי not so am I with myself (i. e. I am not conscious of being one who would fear him, v a), with a vb. Dt 18:14 ואתה לא כן נתן לך י׳ (not so,—viz. as implied in v a), 2 S 18:14 Is 10:7 לא כן יְדַמֶּה, לא כן יחשׁב, absol. Gn 48:18 לא כן אבי, Ex 10:11. e.g. Genesis 1:7
- 2. Often, to emphasize the agreement, in answer to כְּ, and כַּאֲשֶׁר: viz.
- a. כְּ … כֵּן, (a) Gn 44:10 = Jos 2:21 כדבריכם כֶּן־הוּא, according to your words, so be it, 1 S 25:25 כי כשׁמו כֶּן־הוּא, ψ 48:11 Pr 23:7 כֶּן־הוּא (after conj. כְּמוֹ), Ez 42:11 כְּאָרְכָּן כֵּן רָחְבָּן; (b) Lv 27:12 כְּעֶרְכְּךָ כֵּן יִהְיֶה, 2 S 13:35 Nu 8:4; 9:14; 15:20 Dt 8:20 Ju 11:10, so after כְּפִי Nu 6:21; (c) כְּכֹל … כֵּן … 1 S 8:8 2 S 7:17 Je 42:5; (d) in similes, (α) 2 S 14:17 כמלאך הא׳ כן אדני המלך, Je 18:6 ψ 123:2; 127:4 Pr 10:26; 26:8, 19; 27:8, 19 Ct 2:2, 3; (β) Jo 2:4 כְּפָרָשִׁים כֵּן יְרוּצוּן, Is 31:5 38:14 ψ 103:15 Pr 26:1, 2; (γ) ψ 42:2 כאיל תערג … כן נפשׁי וג׳ like the hind which etc., 83:16 Is 61:11; 63:14 Jb 7:3, so after כמו Is 26:17; (δ) Je 2:26 כְּבשֶׁת גַּנָּב … כֵּן הוֹבִישׁוּ 6:7; 34:5 (read כְּמשׂרפות), Ez 22:22 (cf. v 20), 23:44; 34:12; cf. (of degree) 35:15 (om. 𝔊 Co), Ho 4:7 כְּרֻכָּם כֵּן חָֽטְאוּ לִי. Of time (rare) Ho 6:3 (?), 1 S 9:13 כְּבֹאֲכֶם הָעִיר כֵּן תִּמְצְאוּן אֹתוֹ. e.g. Genesis 44:10
- b. †Ezr 10:12 כן כדבריך עלינו לעשׂות. e.g. Ezra 10:12
- c. כַּאֲשֶׁר … כֵּן …, (a) Ex 7:6 כאשׁר צוה י׳ כן עשׂו, 12:28, 50; 39:43 (cf. 27:8), Nu 8:22 (cf. 5:4), 17:26; 36:10 Jos 14:5 (all P); Gn 41:13 כאשׁר פתר כן היה, Jos 10:1, 39; 11:15 Ju 1:7; 15:11 b ψ 48:9; (b) (freq.) Nu 2:17 כאשׁר יַחֲנוּ כֵּן יִסָּ֑עוּ, Ex 1:12 (of degree = the more … the more) כַּאֲשֶׁר יְעַנּוּ אֹתוֹ כֵּן יִרְבֶּה וְכֵן יִפְרֹץ; (c) Gn 6:22 ככל אשׁר צוה אתו אלהים כן עשׂה, Ex 39:32, 42; 40:16 Nu 1:54; 2:34; 8:20; 9:5 (all P), cf. Ex 25:9 (וְכֵן), simil. 2 S 9:11 2 K 16:11, cf. Jos 1:17 Je 42:20; (d) Ex 27:8 כאשׁר הֶרְאָה אתך כן יעשׂו, 2 S 16:19 1 K 2:38 Is 20:4; 52:14f.; with the same vb. repeated Lv 24:19, 20 Dt 28:63 כאשׁר שׂשׂ … כן ישׂישׂ, Jos 23:15; 1 S 15:33; 26:24 1 K 1:37 Is 10:11 Je 5:19; 31:28; 32:42; 42:18 Ez 12:11; 20:36 Zc 7:13 Pr 24:29; Nu 14:28 אם לא כאשׁר דברתם כן אעשׂה, Is 14:24, so after הלא 10:11, after asseverative כי 2 S 3:9 1 K 1:30; so כָּל־עֻמַּת שֶׁ׳ … כֵּן † Ec 5:15; (e) Ju 7:17 b כאשׁר אעשׂה כן תעשׂון, Lv 27:14 Nu 15:14, cf. Je 39:12; (f) in similes, Dt 12:22; 22:26 Am 3:12 Is 65:8 Je 13:11. e.g. Exodus 7:6
- d. כן כאשׁר …, (a) Ex 7:10 ויעשׂו כן כאשׁר צוה י׳, v 20 Jos 4:8 2 S 5:25 Ez 12:7, cf. Gn 50:12 Nu 8:3; iron. Am 5:14 יהי כן י׳ אתּכם כאשׁר אמרתם, Ex 10:10; (b) Gn 18:5 כן תעשׂה כאשׁר דברת, Ne 5;12.—Occasionally in poetry כאשׁר is not expressed: Is 54:9 (De), 55:9 Je 3;20 Jb 7:9 Ho 11:2 קראו להם כן הלכו מפניהם (of degree: so = in the same proportion), ψ 48:6 המה ראו כן תמהו (i.e. in the same measure that they saw); Je 33:22 (according to many, but dub.; read prob. כאשׁר Gie) it is represented by אשׁר (so Is 54:9 Hi Ew Di): Ju 5:15 Ez 22:20 כ is not expressed. Na 1:12 is prob. corrupt; Zc 11:11 for כן עניי read כְּנַעֲנֵי.—כֹּה, כָּכָה, כָּזֹאת are syn., but differ considerably in usage. e.g. Exodus 7:10
- 3. With prepositions:—
- a. אַחַר־כֵּן, אַחֲרֵי־כֵן, מֵאַחֲרֵי־כֵן, lit. after so, i. e. afterwards: v. אַחַר.
- b. †בְּכֵן (late), lit. in such circumstances, i.e. thereupon, then, Ec 8;10 Est 4:16 (𝔗 בְּכֵין often for אָז; e.g. Ex 15:1; SyriacJerus. ܒܟܢ = τότε). e.g. Esther 4:16
- c. †כְּמוֹ־כֵן Is 51:6, according to some, like so, i.e. (Vrss Rabb) in like manner, or (De) like this (accompanied by a contemptuous gesture) = like a mere nothing: but v. iv. כֵּן. e.g. Isaiah 51:6
- d. לָכֵן200 according to such conditions, that being so, therefore Nu 16:11 1 S 27:6 ψ 16:9; 73:6, 10; especially in proph., where it often introduces, after statement of the grounds, a divine declaration or command: Ju 10:13 2 K 1:6 Am 4:12 Is 5:13, 14, 24; 7:14; 10:16; 16:7; 27:9 Je 6:15; 8:10 etc.; לכן כה אמר י׳ 2 K 21:12 Is 10:24; 28:16; 29:22; 30:12; 37:33 Je 5:14; 6:21 + often; sq. נאם האדון Is 1:24; נאם י׳ 1 S 2:30 Je 2:9; לכן הנה ימים באים נאם י׳ Je 7:32; 16:14; 19:6 +; לכן חי אני נאם י׳ Ez 5:11; 35:6, 11 Zp 2:9; לכן הנני … 1 K 14:10 Ho 2:8, 16 Is 29:14 Je 16:21 Ez 16:37; 22:19 b; 25:4, 7, 9 +; לכן אֱמֹר †Ex 6:6 Nu 25:12 (both P), Ez 11:16, 17; 14:6; 20:30; 33:25; 36:22; לָכֵן דַּבֵּר † Ez 14:4; 20:27; לָכֵן הִנָּבֵא †Ez 11:4; 36:3, 6; 37:12; 38:14; לָכֵן שִׁמְעוּ … Is 28:14; 51:21 Je 6:18; 44:26 +. In answer to יען, Nu 20:12 (P), 1 K 14:10 2 K 1:16; 21:12; 22:20 Is 29:14; 30:13 Je 19:6 +, Ez 5:8 13:23 +; so, once, וְלָכֵן Is 8:7; to כי Is 28:16 Je 35:17; על Je 9:14; אם 23:38; 42:15. Special usages:—(a) idiom., in conversation, in reply to an objection, to state the ground upon which the answer is made; Gn 4:15 therefore—this being so—whoso killeth Cain, etc., 30:15 Ju 8:7; 11:8 1 S 28:2 1 K 22:19 Jb 20:2 (𝔊 in Gn K Jb, not perceiving the idiom, renders οὐχ οὕτως (as though לא־כן): so also strangely, elsewhere, as 1 S 3:14 2 K 1:4, 6; 21:12). (b) inferring the cause from the effect, or developing what is logically involved in a statement, Is 26:14 b (cf. De) therefore thou hast visited and destroyed them (not a consequence of v a ‘the dead rise not,’ but the development of what is implicit in it), 61:7 Je 2:33; 5:2 (because viz. אין אמונה v 1), Jb 34:25; 42:3.—Zc 11:7 read לִכְנַעֲנֵי הַצֹּאן. e.g. Numbers 16:11
- e. †עַד־כֵּן hitherto (of time), as yet Ne 2:16. e.g. Nehemiah 2:16
- f. עַל־כֵּן145 upon ground of such conditions, therefore (introducing, more generally than לָכֵן, the statement of a fact, rather than a declaration: never used in the phrases noted under לָכֵן), Gn 20:6; 42:21 Ex 5:8, 17; 16:29; 20:11 1 S 20:29; 28:18 2 S 7:22, 27 1 K 20:23 Is 5:25; 9:16; 13:7, 13; 15:4, 7; 16:9, 11; 17:10; 21:3 Je 5:6, 27; 10:21; 12:8; 20:11; 31:3, 20 Ez 7:20; 22:4; 31:5 etc., ψ 1:5; 42:7; 45:3 c (the poet’s inference from v a. b), v 8 110:7 Jb 6:3; 9:22; 17:4; 20:21 etc., Ct 1:3; and regularly where the origin of a name, or custom, or proverb is assigned, Gn 2:24 על־כן יעזב אישׁ וג׳, 10:9 על־כן יֵאָמַ֔ר, 11:9 על־כן קרא שׁמה בבל, 16:14; 19:22; 21:31; 25:30; 26:33; 29:34, 35; 30:6; 32:33; 47:22 Ex 13:15; 15:23 Nu 18:24; 21:14, 27 Dt 10:9 (cf. 15:11, 15; 19:7; 24:18, 22), Jos 7:26; 14:14 Ju 15:19; 18:12 1 S 5:5; 10:12; 23:28 (? read so 27:6) 2 S 5:8, 20 etc.; הַעַל־כֵּן †Hb 1:17.—Est 9:26 the 2nd על כן (unless dittogr.) points unusually onwards to על כל דברי האגרת on this account, on account, viz., etc. e.g. Genesis 20:6
כן III base, pedestal, office (NH כַּנָּה
- 1. lit. base, pedestal, 1 K 7:31 (like) the work of a pedestal (Th VB), according to StaZAW iii, 1883, 161, 162 מַעֲשֵׂה־כֵן is in wrong place, being orig. part of a gloss to v 35;—כ׳ in v 29 = thus, or is textual error;—כֵּן־תָּרְנָם Is 33:23 the base (support or socket) of their mast (so Thes and most); especially of base of laver of tabernacle Ex 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:11 Lv 8:11 (all P). e.g. 1 Kings 7:31
- 2. office, place Gn 40:13; 41:13 (both E); hence (late) עַל־כַּנּוֹ in his place Dn 11:20, 21, 38 (i.e. in his stead, as his successor, cf. Germ. an seiner Stelle); עַל om. v 7. e.g. Genesis 40:13
כן IV (?), כִּנִּם, כִּנָּם n.[m.], meaning dub.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. adj. right, veritable, honest (proposes firm, upright; Syriac ܟܻܐܢ recte PS1662)—abs. כֵּן Ex 10:29 + (on poss. cstr. v. 2 ad fin.); pl. כֵּנִים Gn 42:11, 19, 31, 33, 34;—
II. adv. so, thus (Ph. NH 𝔗 id.; Syriac ܟܶܢ is then, Arabic لٰكِنْ, لٰكِنَّ, but: prob. from the demonstr. √ ka, found in כִּי etc., Köii 1, 254); (הִיא) כֶּן־הוּא Gn 44:10 + 4 times: so thus (i.e. usually, as has been described or commanded, with ref. to what has preceded), mostly of manner, but sometimes also of quantity, quality, or degree:
VI. n.m. base, pedestal, office (NH כַּנָּה; Aramaic כַּנְתָּא, ܟܰܢܳܐ )—abs. כ׳ Is 33:23 1 K 7:31 (but v. infr.); sf. כַּנּוֹ Ex 30:18 + 11 times; כַּנֶּ֑ךָ Gn 40:13; כַּנִּי 41:13;—
VII. (?), כִּנִּם, כִּנָּם n.[m.], meaning dub.; either gnat, gnats, gnat-swarm (so 𝔊 𝔙 PhiloVita Mos. i, p. 97, OrigenHom 4, 6 in Ex., and most moderns), or [louse,] lice (so 𝔖 𝔗 JosAnt. ii, 14, 13 BochHieroz. II, ii, 572 f., as NH כִּנָּה, pl. כִּנִּים = maggots, and especially lice)—abs. perh. כֵּן Is 51:6 (v. infr.); pl. כִּנִּים Ex 8:13, 14 ψ 105:31, כִּנִּם Ex 8:12; Ex 8:13, 14 has, also, כִּנָּם prob. a mere Mas. device for כִּנִּם (cf. Di), on account of preceding וַתְּהִי (on which see Ges§ 145. 4 DaSynt. § 116); Sam. has כנים throughout:—of Egyptian plague Ex 8:12, 13(×2), 14(×2) (all P), hence ψ 105:31; כְּמוֹ־כֵן יְמוּתוּן Is 51:6 like a gnat-swarm (?) shall they die (cf. Di Du; Weir Che read כנים, cf. Buhlp. 355; > Brd De like this). Note.—NöM 54 BaNB § 15, ES 53 BuhlGes HWB ed. 12 connect this word etymol. with Aramaic כלמתא vermin, Ba and Buhl also with Assyrian kalmatu, id. [DlHWB 333], and even with Aramaic קלמתא, ܩܰܠܡܬܳܐ, Arabic قَمْلٌ, etc., Ethiopic ቍማl louse; but these connexions, as well as that with NH כְּנִימָה, all involving radical מ, are most improb.
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Derived from כון (kûwn) (H3559) — to be established.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כַּן
- here, v. כַּאַן.
כֵּן I
- v. כִּי, so, thus. Ber. 11ᵇ וכן הוא אומר and so we read; a. v. fr.—אם כן, אלא אם כן, v. אִם.—לָכֵן for such a purpose. Y. Maas. Sh. II, 53ᵇ bot. דרכו ל׳ it is usually employed for such a purpose. Y. Erub. VII, beg. 24ᵇ ייחדו ל׳ he devoted it to such &c.—יתר על כן, יתר מִכֵּן, v. יֶתֶר I.
כֵּן
- , ch. same. Targ. Is. LI, 6. Targ. O. Ex. I, 12; a. fr.—Ber. 11ᵇ וכן אורי ליה וכ׳ and so taught R. El. &c.; a. v. fr.—בתר כן, contr. בְּכֵן, after this; therefore. Targ. II Sam. II, 1; a. fr.—Ib. XXII, 47; a. e.—וּלְהָלָא מִבְּכֵן, וּלְהָלָה מִבְּכֵין from now and further on = h. מכאן ואילך. Targ. I Kings XIV, 14.—Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᵈ ר"י מטתיה כן such (disease) befell R. J.; Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40ᵈ הוה ליה כן. Ib. bot. ימות ולא כן let him rather die than do this (idolatrous cure); a. fr.—Y. Ber. III, 6ᵇ top לָכֵן דאתינן (v. preced.) it is for this purpose that we came here (to be reminded of death).—דִּל כֵּן, דִּלָכֵן, v. דִּל.—כל דכן, v. כּוֹל.—כֵּינִי = כין הי it is so; (interrog.) is it so, indeed? Y. Peah II, 17ᵃ bot. וכ׳ אלא כ׳ is that so? (No,) but it is thus. Ib. III, 17ᶜ top כ׳ (insert מתניתא); ib. II, beg. 16ᵈ כ׳ מתניתא (not ב׳) so is the Mishnah to be read. Y. B. Mets. III, beg. 9ᵃ וְאִין כ׳ but if this be so; a. fr.
כֵּן II
- , with suff. כַּנּ־, m. (b. h.; כּוּן or כָּנַן)
- 1. base, stand, rest. Cant. R. to I, 1 (ref. to והנה חלום, I Kings III, 15) החלום … על כַּנּוֹ the dream (after he awoke) remained standing on its firm stand (was realized); Yalk. Kings 175. Yoma V, 3, sq. הניחו על כ׳ וכ׳ he set it down on the stand. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. II, 17 מחוסרין כן vessels that have lost their rest; a. fr.—Pl. כַּנִּים, constr. כַּנֵּי. Kel. XI, 3.— Trnsf. social status. Yeb. 77ᵇ גיורת מכַּנָּהּ a proselyte of her own status, i.e. born after the conversion of her parents both of whom were of the same nation. e.g. 1 Kings 3:15
- 2. (cmp. כּוּן Pi.) ruler. Ib. XII, 8; Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. VII, 12 הכן והכַּנָּה (Var. והכַּנָּא) the ruler and that which is ruled (the writing material); oth. opin.: the ruled material and the ruler; [oth. opin.: (cmp. σταθμός) the base of the scales and the scales; oth. opin. the strike and the measure.]
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Forms in the corpus
The 76 distinct written forms H3651 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לָ/כֵ֗ן | Adverb | Amos 3:11 | 64 |
| כֵּ֥ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Esther 2:12 | 63 |
| כֵּ֣ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Amos 3:12 | 58 |
| כֵּ֖ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 8:20 | 48 |
| לָ/כֵ֞ן | Adverb | Amos 7:17 | 34 |
| כֵּ֤ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 20:15 | 33 |
| כֵּ֗ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 5:15 | 31 |
| כֵּן֙ | Particle, Demonstrative | Amos 3:2 | 27 |
| כֵּֽן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 3:21 | 25 |
| כֵ֔ן | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:31 | 22 |
| כֵּ֛ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 19:7 | 22 |
| לָ/כֵן֙ | Adverb | Ezekiel 13:8 | 19 |
| כֵ֖ן | Adverb | Esther 3:2 | 18 |
| כֵֽן | Adverb | Exodus 14:4 | 16 |
| כֵּ֚ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Exodus 25:33 | 16 |
| כֵ֗ן | Adverb | Exodus 8:17 | 15 |
| לָ/כֵ֣ן | Adverb | Ezekiel 5:11 | 15 |
| לָ/כֵ֛ן | Adverb | Amos 6:7 | 14 |
| כֵּ֞ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 10:9 | 13 |
| כֵּ֔ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 4:5 | 12 |
| כֵ֣ן | Adverb | Esther 1:8 | 10 |
| כֵּן | Particle, Demonstrative | Ecclesiastes 8:10 | 10 |
| לָ֠/כֵן | Adverb | Amos 5:11 | 10 |
| כֵ֥ן | Adverb | Exodus 8:7 | 9 |
| וְ/כֵ֣ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 22:3 | 9 |
| כֵן֙ | Adverb | Esther 1:13 | 9 |
| כֵּ֡ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Ecclesiastes 8:11 | 9 |
| לָ/כֵן֩ | Adverb | Ezekiel 18:30 | 9 |
| כֵּ֭ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Job 22:10 | 8 |
| וְ/כֵ֖ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Exodus 25:9 | 7 |
| כֵּ֝֗ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Job 6:3 | 7 |
| לָ/כֵ֖ן | Adverb | Ezekiel 11:4 | 7 |
| לָ/כֵ֤ן | Adverb | Isaiah 26:14 | 7 |
| כֵ֑ן | Adverb | Genesis 41:31 | 6 |
| כֵ֞ן | Adverb | Amos 5:14 | 5 |
| לָ/כֵ֕ן | Adverb | Amos 4:12 | 5 |
| וְ/כֵ֥ן | Particle, Demonstrative | 1 Kings 6:33 | 4 |
| כֵּ֑ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Esther 4:16 | 4 |
| כֵּן֩ | Particle, Demonstrative | Exodus 13:15 | 4 |
| וְ/כֵ֤ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Exodus 26:4 | 3 |
| וְ/כֵ֨ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Exodus 27:11 | 3 |
| כֵ֤ן | Adverb | Amos 4:5 | 3 |
| כֵ֨ן | Adverb | Exodus 8:18 | 3 |
| כֵּ֠ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Exodus 16:29 | 3 |
| כֵּנִ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 42:11 | 3 |
| כֶּן | Adverb | Genesis 44:10 | 3 |
| לָ/כֵ֡ן | Adverb | Ezekiel 25:4 | 3 |
| לָ/כֵ֥ן | Adverb | Ezekiel 23:9 | 3 |
| לָ֭/כֵן | Adverb | Job 20:2 | 3 |
| וְ/כֵ֧ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Deuteronomy 22:3 | 2 |
| וְ/כֵן֙ | Particle, Demonstrative | 1 Chronicles 20:3 | 2 |
| וְ/לָ/כֵ֥ן | Adverb | 1 Samuel 3:14 | 2 |
| וְ֠/כֵן | Particle, Demonstrative | 1 Kings 10:29 | 2 |
| כֵ֕ן | Adverb | Exodus 11:1 | 2 |
| כֵ֛ן | Adverb | Exodus 7:22 | 2 |
| כֵ֡ן | Adverb | 2 Chronicles 20:1 | 2 |
| כֵן֩ | Adverb | Exodus 7:20 | 2 |
| כֵנִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 42:33 | 2 |
| כֵּ֕ן | Particle, Demonstrative | Esther 9:26 | 2 |
| וְ/כֵ֞ן | Particle, Demonstrative | 2 Chronicles 32:31 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 16 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3651, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יכין Yâkîyn H3199 Jachin
- יכניה Yᵉkonyâh H3204 Jeconiah
- כון Kûwn H3560 Chun
- כונניהו Kôwnanyâhûw H3562 Cononiah
- כיון Kîyûwn H3594 Chiun
- נכון Nâkôwn H5225 Nachon
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 14 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 688 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 737 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:7
- Exodus 1:12
- Leviticus 4:20
- Numbers 1:54
- Deuteronomy 3:21
- Joshua 1:17
- Judges 1:7
- 1 Samuel 1:7
- 2 Samuel 2:1
- 1 Kings 1:30
- 2 Kings 1:4
- 1 Chronicles 11:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
