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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. Micah 1:14 לָכֵן֙ la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

  2. Micah 2:3 לָכֵ֗ן la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

  3. Micah 2:5 לָכֵן֙ la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

  4. Micah 3:6 לָכֵ֞ן la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

  5. Micah 3:12 לָכֵן֙ la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  6. Micah 5:3 לָכֵ֣ן la.Khen · Describes an action

    Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

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