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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. Exodus 11:8 כֵ֖ן khen · Describes an action

    And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

  2. Exodus 12:28 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    And the children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

  3. Exodus 12:50 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    Thus did all the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

  4. Exodus 13:15 כֵּן֩ ken · Describes an action

    and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.

  5. Exodus 14:4 כֵֽן׃ Khen · Describes an action

    And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.

  6. Exodus 15:23 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

  7. Exodus 16:17 כֵ֖ן khen · Describes an action

    And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

  8. Exodus 16:29 כֵּ֠ן ken · Describes an action

    See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

  9. Exodus 17:6 כֵּן֙ ken · Describes an action

    Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  10. Exodus 20:11 כֵּ֗ן Ken · Describes an action

    for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

  11. Exodus 22:30 כֵּֽן־ ken- · Describes an action

    Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

  12. Exodus 23:11 כֵּֽן־ ken- · Describes an action

    but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

  13. Exodus 25:9 וְכֵ֖ן ve.Khen · Describes an action

    According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it.

  14. Exodus 25:33 כֵּ֚ן ken · Describes an action

    three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the candlestick:

  15. Exodus 26:4 וְכֵ֤ן ve.Khen · Describes an action

    And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.

  16. Exodus 26:17 כֵּ֣ן ken · Describes an action

    Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

  17. Exodus 26:24 כֵּ֚ן ken · Describes an action

    And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

  18. Exodus 27:8 כֵּ֥ן ken · Describes an action

    Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

  19. Exodus 27:11 וְכֵ֨ן ve.Khen · Describes an action

    And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

  20. Exodus 34:32 כֵ֥ן khen · Describes an action

    And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

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