כֵּן

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)

Every occurrence

21. Genesis 23:19 כֵן֩ khen · Describes an action

    And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

22. Genesis 25:22 כֵּ֔ן Ken · Describes an action

    And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

23. Genesis 25:26 כֵ֞ן khen · Describes an action

    And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

24. Genesis 25:30 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

25. Genesis 26:33 כֵּ֤ן ken · Describes an action

    And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

26. Genesis 29:26 כֵ֖ן khen · Describes an action

    And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.

27. Genesis 29:28 כֵּ֔ן Ken · Describes an action

    And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.

28. Genesis 29:34 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

29. Genesis 29:35 כֵּ֛ן ken · Describes an action

    And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, This time will I praise Jehovah: therefore she called his name Judah; and she left off bearing.

30. Genesis 30:6 כֵּ֛ן ken · Describes an action

    And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

31. Genesis 30:15 לָכֵן֙ la.Khen · Describes an action

    And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

32. Genesis 31:48 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

33. Genesis 32:20 כֵן֙ khen · Describes an action

    and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.

34. Genesis 32:32 כֵּ֡ן ken · Describes an action

    Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

35. Genesis 33:10 כֵּ֞ן ken · Describes an action

    And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

36. Genesis 33:17 כֵּ֛ן ken · Describes an action

    And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

37. Genesis 34:7 וְכֵ֖ן ve.Khen · Describes an action

    And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

38. Genesis 38:26 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

39. Genesis 41:13 כֵּ֣ן ken · Describes an action

    And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

40. Genesis 41:31 כֵ֑ן Khen · Describes an action

    and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

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