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כֵּן

ken · so

Hebrew · Strong's H3651 · Conjunction · Sounds like: kane · 765 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • so H3651C 734
  • right H3651A · a Meaning of 22
  • as H3651B · a Meaning of 9

Strong's dictionary

from כּוּן; properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles); [phrase] after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, [phrase] (for-) asmuch as yet, [phrase] be (for which) cause, [phrase] following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), [idiom] the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, [phrase] there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, [idiom] you.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כֵּן adj. right, veritable, honest
1. right
2. veritable, true
3. pl. concr. honest (men)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כֵּן adv. so

Every occurrence

  1. Job 3:1 כֵ֗ן Khen · Describes an action

    After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

  2. Job 5:27 כֶּֽן־ ken- · Describes an action

    Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

  3. Job 6:3 כֵּ֝֗ן Ken · Describes an action

    For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

  4. Job 7:3 כֵּ֤ן ken · Describes an action

    So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  5. Job 7:9 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

  6. Job 8:13 כֵּ֗ן Ken · Describes an action

    So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

  7. Job 9:2 כֵ֑ן Khen · Describes an action

    Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

  8. Job 9:22 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

  9. Job 9:35 כֵ֥ן khen · Describes an action

    Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.

  10. Job 17:4 כֵּ֝֗ן Ken · Describes an action

    For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

  11. Job 20:2 לָ֭כֵן La.khen · Describes an action

    Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

  12. Job 20:21 כֵּ֝֗ן Ken · Describes an action

    There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  13. Job 22:10 כֵּ֭ן ken · Describes an action

    Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,

  14. Job 23:15 כֵּ֭ן ken · Describes an action

    Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I am afraid of him.

  15. Job 32:6 כֵּ֖ן ken · Describes an action

    And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.

  16. Job 32:10 לָכֵ֣ן la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show mine opinion.

  17. Job 34:10 לָכֵ֤ן׀ la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

  18. Job 34:25 לָכֵ֗ן la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  19. Job 34:27 כֵּ֭ן ken · Describes an action

    Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:

  20. Job 37:24 לָ֭כֵן La.khen · Describes an action

    Men do therefore fear him: He regardeth not any that are wise of heart.

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